This small, personal, honest experiment on a minimalist budget is edited from 12 years of nostalgic archival footage and ironical pranks. Mostly it is Manfred behind the camera. He follows Kristjan’s encounters and drunken conversations with the self-proclaimed cinema pioneer Eedi. Chess master Eedi can barely walk and can’t hear, but bitterly scorns Kristjan for filmmaking. Unstoppable dreamer, Kristjan continues to imagine a long-postponed film about the painter Jüri Arrak with never-ending hope to leave a mark in Estonian culture.
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Manfred Vainokivi Director · Kersti Miilen Editor
First release November 11, 2023 · Produced in Estonia · Original title Sülita mulle näkku
Production
Filmivabrik
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Estonia
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Original title
Sülita mulle näkku
Original language
Estonian
Spoken on screen
Estonian
Release dates
Estonia · November 11, 2023
Premiere · Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Estonia · November 16, 2023
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