Ester Kuntu

A young soldier stationed at the USSR-China border becomes obsessed with kung fu and seeks martial arts teachers at the most unlikely of places: the local Eastern Orthodox monastery. With a skeptical mother, a rival monk, and a budding love interest pulling him in different directions, his road is long, winding, and full of kick-ass adventures.

Based on a true story during the Cold War, Firebird follows a handsome, soulful young soldier who embarks on a clandestine sexual affair with a charismatic fighter pilot on an Air Force Base in occupied Estonia at the height of 1970’s Communist rule.

Over the course of one rainy autumn day, a waitress bears witness to the existential crises and breakthroughs of her customers—while enduring her own.