Kadri Kõusaar has published three bestselling novels in her native Estonia and directed two feature films. Her debut feature Magnus (2007), about a father trying to help his suicidal son, was the first Estonian film ever included at the official selection of Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard, 2007) and won main awards in Prague Febiofest and Wiesbaden’s GoEast. Kadri’s second film The Arbiter premiered in the official selection East of The West in Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2013.
Estonian Film Institute