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Jaak Kilmi

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Born: October 23, 1973
From: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]

Biography

Jaak Kilmi (born October 23, 1973 in Tallinn) is an Estonian film director, screenwriter and producer. In 1998 he graduated from Tallinn Pedagogical University's film school. Since 2001, Kilmi has been teaching documentary studies to scenography students at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Known for

Disco and Atomic War

The Dissidents

Revolution of Pigs

Touched by the Unknown

The Sleeping Beast

The Art of Selling

Christmas in the Jungle

Filmography

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2026

Dirt in Your Face

Directing (Director)

2025

Ära sega, ma mõtlen!

Directing (Director) Production (Producer) Writing (Writer)

Leaving Tallinn. 1941

Directing (Director) Production (Producer) Writing (Writer) Editing (Editor)

2024

Directing (Director) Writing (Idea)

Badass Merike

Production (Producer)

2022

Let's Do It!

Directing (Director)

The Sleeping Beast

Acting (Rescue Worker) Directing (Director)

2021

Production (Producer)

2020

Christmas in the Jungle

Directing (Director)

Karl and Carla

Production (Producer)

2019

My Father, the Spy

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)

2018

FRESH BLOOD: Own and Stranger

Production (Producer)

Every Sound a Jewel

Directing (Director)

Directing (Director) Production (Producer) Writing (Writer) Camera (Director of Photography)

2017

The Dissidents

Directing (Director)

2015

Out of Fashion

Directing (Director) Production (Producer) Camera ("B" Camera Operator)

Christ lives in Siberia

Directing (Director) Crew (Cinematography)

2014

Over the Roads, Over the River

Directing (Director)

2012

Subject of Thought

Acting (Interviewer) Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)

Underwater Flights

Directing (Director)

2011

Directing (Director)

The New World

Writing (Writer) Production (Producer) Camera (Director of Photography)

Tallinn Spiced Sprats: The Canned Tales

Directing (Director)

2009

Disco and Atomic War

Acting (Narrator (voice)) Writing (Writer) Directing (Director) Camera (Camera Operator)

The Revolution That Wasn't

Production (Producer)

2008

Nazis and Blondes

Writing (Writer) Production (Producer)

2006

The Art of Selling

Directing (Director)

Uncaught Miracle

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)

2005

Men at Arms

Acting (Drunk German Knight)

Touched by the Unknown

Directing (Director)

2004

Choose Order

Camera (Director of Photography)

Revolution of Pigs

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)