SMALLTOWN MISS

Miina has grown up in a safe home environment. That can’t be said about her best friend, Liidia. Besides having a beautiful friendship and doing normal teenage things in the Soviet smalltown, there is some darkness to be faced. Everything begins to change when Liidia becomes influenced with a new arrival to town, a woman portraying what she aspires to be. A new, better and more confident version of herself, so that she could find a way out of her unsafe environment.

Director: Alexandra Pärn
Estonia, 2022
18:20 min

Alexandra Pärn is studying film directing at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School in Tallinn. She has also worked as a freelance assistant director with various projects in Estonia.

Directing portfolio:
2023 – Short feature film “Christmas Eve” (BFM)
(in post-production)
2022 – Short feature film “Smalltown Miss” (BFM)
2021 – Short feature film “Five minutes” (BFM)
2021 – Short feature film “Samantha” (BFM)
2019 – Short documentary "Closing The School of Harmi"
2019 – Short documentary "The Tower Bell in my Village"
2018 – Short feature film "To the Country Side"
2018 – Short documentary "On the Other Side of the Sea"

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  • ATTACHMENT

    A shy teenager finds solace in online friendships. But when a virtual relationship takes over his life, he increasingly loses touch with reality and his last remaining real connections....

  • SMALLTOWN MISS

    The short film is made by second year film students of Tallinn University's Baltic Film, Media and Arts School. It is based on a Lilli Luuk's novella “Kolhoosi miss” following a story of two young girls, their friendship and growing up in a 1988 Soviet smalltown in Estonia....

  • A GOOD BOY

    Maxime is 16. A promising swimmer, he is about to enter a sport study program. One afternoon, the police interrupts a training session to question his coach, who has been accused of sexual abuse by one of the club's young swimmers. These accusations will crack the armour of silence that Max has built to survive the abuse he himself suffered years earlier....

  • DON’T ASK ME ANYTHING

    A young Black woman strolls through the city on her day off. Her thoughts often wander into the past. Here she finds herself in situations where she was racially harassed or insulted. But today she does not helplessly surrender to her memories - as a self-drawn comic heroine she fights back....

  • THE FLOWER DARKENS

    Alice, a graduating high school student, is unsure about all aspects of her future. Uncertain about her own talent and ambition, she seeks comfort from her mother, as well as her good friend Julien and the beautiful music he composes. This morning, during class, news will be delivered by the principal. This news will mark the the start of a complex relationship between Alice and absent grief. ...

  • THE GHOSTS YOU DRAW ON MY BACK

    Teenage Sara travels to a small provincial town to attend the memorial service of her grandmother. The usually quiet village is being disrupted by the construction of the new railway. While fighting her fears, Sara finds shelter in a worker from the construction site....