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Writer-director Rainer Sarnet’s deliriously weird The Invisible Fight would be irksome if it weren’t crafted so lovingly and with a charming earnestness. Part wuxia homage, part coming-of-age story, this slice of absurdist historical fiction has little on its mind other than to amuse, which it does regularly enough to stay on the audience’s good side.

The film is set in the Soviet Union circa 1973, with the drabness of life under an authoritarian regime sharply contrasting with the more fulfilling, vibrant existence that our protagonist, Rafael (Ursel Tilk), is chasing after. The young man, who still lives with his mother in a modest apartment, is the only survivor of an attack by three Chinese bandits at the Soviet-Chinese border, where he works as a guard. When his car breaks down one day near a monastery, Rafael, a rebel in search of radicalization, goads the monks and does his...

The Estonian psychological drama, produced by Kopli Kinokompanii, stars Mari Abel in the lead role. Writer-director Kaupo Kruusiauk is now working on his second feature, following his debut film, The Last Prince (2018), which was a documentary revolving around popular actor and musician Peeter Volkonski. Kruusiauk’s new project, a psychological drama entitled Sandra Gets a Job, is currently in post-production. The story, penned in its entirety by the director himself, centres on a young Doctor of Physics, called Sandra, who unexpectedly loses her job in an interest research group. Getting a new job seems simple at first glance, but after a few failures, Sandra starts to feel ever more acutely that she is unemployed. Every new attempt to find a job is increasingly humiliating for her, and moreover, she is forced to hide her failure from her successful parents, who also work in the world of science. Sandra is played.