Kadri Kõusaar’s film Mother has been put forward by Estonia for consideration for Best Film in a Foreign Language at the 89th Academy Awards.
Inspired by the radio series Coma – made by Irish filmmaker Kevin McCann – Kadri Kõusaar’s darkly comic thriller Mother centres on a woman whose adult son is in a coma after a shooting. The woman – played by Tiina Mälberg – must face the locals of the small town in which they live who try to solve the mystery of what happened.