Toomiku film
A film portraying the artist Jaan Toomik at a time when he becomes aware of a certain saturation of everything he has encountered in the world of art. Toomik, trying to find a fresh challenge that would enable him to see himself from a completely new angle, directs a movie.
Marko Raat graduated from the Chair of Film and Video in Tallinn Pedagogical University as a film director in 1998. He has produced TV programs, short films, documentaries and advertising films, as well as full-length feature films.
Marko Raat is an award-winning Estonian writer-director, curator and academic, active in the fields of both arthouse fiction film and documentaries since 1999. He has a vast background in theatre directing, TV productions and in fine art. His latest feature-length documentary Funeral Diaries (2019) is still travelling the festival circuit after premiering at Dok.Fest Munich and opening DocPoint Tallinn. His most recent short film A Chairman’s Tale (2015) had its debut at the International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia. His last feature-length fiction film The Snow Queen (2010) had been developed at SOURCES2 and premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival, then was screened at Cairo and Mumbai among many acclaimed festivals.