Indeed, one of the festival "discoveries" this year is the depiction of the uninhibited folk singer Hilana Taarka (1865-1933) who came from the Russian-Estonian border forests where a strange ethnic dialect known as Seto was spoken. Born dirt-poor,  she had seven children out of wedlock, had sometimes resorted to begging to support her family, lived in a chimneyless hut for a good part of her life, yet would win international acclaim as a folk singer, worshipped as a legend but despised, scorned and all but ostracised by her community. Her unconventional morals and outspoken manners—revolutionary by the norms of conservative Seto culture, made her an outcast long after her death. “I don’t sing the words of others,” she had said, “I  sing the words of my own—picked up from the  ground, carved out of the wood”.  First feature by  Estonian theater director Ain Maeots, 37.   “For me, Taarka is not so much a story about a singer of one small nation, but a story about a conflict between an individual and a community, and choices that derive from that.”
 
(In Estonian/Seto and Finnish; English subtitles)