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\u201cWith many debut features set to premiere in 2026, it feels like a generational shift,\u201d says Sigrid Saag<\/a> of the Estonian Film Institute<\/a>. \u201cTheir stories focus more on youth, which the previous generations used to ignore, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n That includes \u201cMorten<\/a>\u201d by Ivan Pavljut\u0161kov<\/a>, following an introverted 15-year-old who lives with his unemployed uncle while his mother works abroad.<\/p>\n \u201cThe new generation of Estonian directors is marked by a more radical and self-assured cinematic vision. Many are eager to take risks, experiment with form and genre and move beyond conventional storytelling,\u201d notes Pavljut\u0161kov.<\/p>\n \u201cThere will be more stories engaging with contemporary Estonian realities, approached with a fresh perspective and a distinctly modern sensibility. I\u2019m especially glad…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe ball is in your court, Estonia,\u201d said Conan O\u2019Brien during the Oscars after Latvia won its own statuette for \u201cFlow\u201d. Now, a new wave of Estonian directors is coming to stake their claim. \u201cWith many debut features set to premiere in 2026, it feels like a generational shift,\u201d says Sigrid Saag of the Estonian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2285517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2285516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Estonian-Cinema-Comes-Out-of-Its-Shell-Led-by-New.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285518,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285516\/revisions\/2285518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}