Laura Liventaal

High-achieving teenager Pärli feels like a mountain range: cold below the knees and hot in her hands. She compares parts of her body to different seasons and playfully envies a dancing grasshopper's movements. If not a ballerina, she imagines being a violinist or lion tamer. Aspiring Black Swan Maarja took up ballet at her parents' urging, though she preferred hip-hop. Ballet lecturer and horse rider Irina teaches students to appreciate the technically perfect ballet body, yet struggles to find joy and tends to censor everything, even as she resists strict control. All three strive for perfection in life and on the dance floor. Ballet offers escape into a magical world but demands patience. Dancers repeat exercises and rehearse for hours, seeking precision despite pain, fatigue or waning motivation. Each movement takes time to master, perhaps only to satisfy a mother's high expectations.

Berta's sister Helena has gone missing and there is little hope of finding her. Berta visits the morgue, where she views several bodies, each with her own tragic story. How can Helena be one of them?

An experimental documentary about the process of opening up to oneself and others. An old actor is trying not to act. How to be yourself?

High-achieving teenager Pärli feels like a mountain range: cold below the knees and hot in her hands. She compares parts of her body to different seasons and playfully envies a dancing grasshopper's movements. If not a ballerina, she imagines being a violinist or lion tamer. Aspiring Black Swan Maarja took up ballet at her parents' urging, though she preferred hip-hop. Ballet lecturer and horse rider Irina teaches students to appreciate the technically perfect ballet body, yet struggles to find joy and tends to censor everything, even as she resists strict control. All three strive for perfection in life and on the dance floor. Ballet offers escape into a magical world but demands patience. Dancers repeat exercises and rehearse for hours, seeking precision despite pain, fatigue or waning motivation. Each movement takes time to master, perhaps only to satisfy a mother's high expectations.

High-achieving teenager Pärli feels like a mountain range: cold below the knees and hot in her hands. She compares parts of her body to different seasons and playfully envies a dancing grasshopper's movements. If not a ballerina, she imagines being a violinist or lion tamer. Aspiring Black Swan Maarja took up ballet at her parents' urging, though she preferred hip-hop. Ballet lecturer and horse rider Irina teaches students to appreciate the technically perfect ballet body, yet struggles to find joy and tends to censor everything, even as she resists strict control. All three strive for perfection in life and on the dance floor. Ballet offers escape into a magical world but demands patience. Dancers repeat exercises and rehearse for hours, seeking precision despite pain, fatigue or waning motivation. Each movement takes time to master, perhaps only to satisfy a mother's high expectations.

An experimental documentary about the process of opening up to oneself and others. An old actor is trying not to act. How to be yourself?

An experimental documentary about the process of opening up to oneself and others. An old actor is trying not to act. How to be yourself?