Jaak Kilmi

Estonia

Jaak Kilmi

director, producer

Force Majeure. Riga

Force Majeure. Riga

Seven well-know European documentary filmmakers portraying the everyday life, social and cultural phenomena of seven neighborhoods of Riga tell story of the city in a light it has not been seen yet. Over the Roads and…
My Father, The Spy

My Father, The Spy

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants, then working in the Soviet mission at the United Nations in NY, would irreversibly split her life in two.
Out Of Fashion

Out Of Fashion

Fashion designer Reet Aus has the ambitious plan to change the world. The film follows her on her mission around the world to create cutting edge fashion out of the trash material of the industry.
Paper Town

Paper Town

The Estonian-Russian border town Narva is a kind of no-man's-land on the Eastern border of the European Union. The glory days of this city seem to fall into a distant past. Paper town is a film about two gentlemen from…
Tallinn Spicy Sprats. The Canned Tales.

Tallinn Spicy Sprats. The Canned Tales.

This fresh documentary tragicomedy investigates the relationship between the city and its residents by recreating the personal stories and dreams of 12 ordinary people. In the film meet the stories of the living and the…
The Circus Tour

The Circus Tour

Estonia has never had its own circus. In the 21st century, a time when the role of circus animals is being questioned, a businessman Lauri Viikna lives in his own circus dream world. A few years ago, a group of animal…
The New World

The New World

How to create an urban living space? How to change the world/your neighborhood? How to make the revolution? This film is about the New World Society, a citizens’ initiative in Tallinn, Estonia. The New World is an…
Disco & Atomic War

Disco & Atomic War

Disco and Atomic War tells the story of a strange kind of information war in which a totalitarian regime stands face to face with the heroes of popular culture. And loses. Western popular culture had an incomparable…
Nazis and Blondes

Nazis and Blondes

What was the role of Baltic film actors in creating the figure of the enemy in Soviet cinema? Many generations of Soviet people were raised in the spirit of Soviet war films. It is a fact that most Nazi villains in…
The Revolution that Wasn't

The Revolution that Wasn't

The Russian opposition, fragmented by different extreme ideas, was faced with a dilemma before the 2008 presidential elections: whether to remain in history, or to get lost in it. This film is a story told from inside…
The Art of Selling

The Art of Selling

Mr. Vain is a legendary sales training instructor in Estonia. He worked with great success in the US for six weeks as a door-to door book peddler. Mark is inviting young active people to a meeting promoting the prospect…
A Living Force

A Living Force

The playful documentary The Living Force follows the struggle of three men, very different in their outlook on life - Georg - a loser, Peeter - an intellectual, and Arto - a yuppie, in society that is built on success…
Beauty of the Fatherland

Beauty of the Fatherland

This film is a part of "gender Montage: Paradigms from post-soviet space" documentary collection, supported by Network Women`s Program of Open Society Institute and Institute for Social and gender Policy (ISGP). The…