Up-and-coming Estonian writer-director Eeva Mägi ( Mo Mamma , Who Am I Smiling for? ) is on Thursday world premiering her new feature film, Mo Papa , an unscripted drama about the scars of childhood trauma and prison, kicking off the Critics’ Picks lineup at the 29th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) with a bold, raw, and emotional cinematic experience about trauma and our hopes of healing.

Mo Papa follows Eugen, 28, who has just been released from prison after serving 10 years for a tragic accident, in which he killed his younger brother. Haunted by a childhood “marked by abandonment and unresolved trauma,” he returns to a world that has moved on without him. His only social ties are his estranged father and two childhood friends he knows from an o

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