38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Autumn Ball

Sügisball

Veiko Õunpuu

Image Autumn Ball
Estonia
2007 Fiction 2h03
How close can we get to others? Is it possible to live a life completely devoid of love? Can someone, who has experienced what a fragile state of affairs shared happiness is, trust another again? What can be said about life anyway? Some chosen moments from the life of six people living in a huge sprawling conurbation of tower blocks built during the soviet era...
With : Rain Tolk, Taavi Eelmaa, Sulevi Peltola, Tiina Tauraite, Juhan Ulfsak, Maarja Jakobson, Mirtel Pohla
Screenplay : Veiko Õunpuu
Image : Mart Taniel
Sound : Janne Laine
Music : Ülo Krigul
Editing : Veiko Õunpuu, Tambet Tasuja
Production : Kuukulgur Film, Katrin Kissa, Kentmanni 20a - 26, Talllinn 10116, Estonie // Tel : +372 56 67 78 55 / Fax : +372 642 40 11 // Email : kissa@too.ee
Veiko Õunpuu was born in 1972 in Saaremaa. He has been a worker, an unsuccessful salesman of floormaterials, once almost a political refugee. He has studied painting in the Estonian Academy of arts. His first film, a short feature Tühirand, won all the prices in Estonia in 2006, and was selected in the official competition of Premiers Plans Festival in 2007. Sügisball is his first long feature and was premiered in Venice International Film Festival. He is currently working on a new project, Püha tônu kiu (The Temptation of St. tony)