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Headfirst is a black comedy about a single mother with anger management problems and her teenage daughter who is always in trouble at school. With yet another school comes a new teacher and a blast from the past for the mother. Before long, an accidental pickpocket and a notoriously lousy storyteller teams up with this one dysfunctional sort of a family. Nothing is the same anymore. Headfirst is a story about missing teeth, strange friends, hidden dreams and long-gone love. And about a hare.
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FI

Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.

Astma-Mika
Shūji, a desperate vagrant who nearly kills himself, stumbles into a neon‑lit soapland and unleashes his pent‑up lust on hostess Nanako, his cries of desire filling the steamy room. Injured in a bicycle accident, he awakens in a hospital bed—only to be mistaken for her absent husband by Nazuna, a stunning sexy wife starved of affection. In her softly lit apartment, Nazuna’s trembling fingers and silk nightgown hint at the secret hunger she’s long suppressed. Under half‑drawn curtains, her lace lingerie clings to every curve as his fingertips trace heated paths across her skin. Their lips collide in desperate kisses, each gasp and moan echoing in the intimate gloom as they lose themselves in forbidden ecstasy. She arches against him, offering every tremor of her ripe body to his eager touch. By dawn, mercy and obsession blur, leaving them entwined in a heady haze of passion and deception.