A 72-minute Estonian fever dream where grief meets fish guts and first love smells like salt.
Teenager Juulius loses his mother and goes to live with Taavi, a wise fisherman. Juulius gets to know the daily life in the fisherman's village, falls in love for the first time, and realizes the complexity of the relationships between those of older generation. While leaving for a stormy sea of life from the village he has still some hope in order to come back to his love and his home port.
Cinematography
Baltic Sea greys that make sadness look gorgeous.
Acting
Tarmo Koidla's wordless mourning hits harder than dialogue.
Director
Jaan Kolberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Estonia's first year of post-Soviet independence, the film carries literal national rebirth energy.
Director Jaan Kolberg cast actual fishermen; Ants Ander was a non-professional discovered at a local port.
EE
SU
