November

In this tale of love and survival in 19th-century Estonia, peasant girl Liina longs for village boy Hans, who is inexplicably infatuated by a visiting German baroness who possesses all that he longs for. For Liina, winning Hans’ requited love proves incredibly complicated in this dark, harsh landscape where spirits, werewolves, plagues, and the devil himself converge, where thievery is rampant, and where souls are highly regarded, but come quite cheap. With alluring black-and-white cinematography, Rainer Sarnet vividly captures these motley lives as they toil to exist—but is existence worth anything if it lacks a soul?