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Liis Nimik

Liis Nimik

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Biography

Liis Nimik is an Estonian-based documentarian, film editor and producer. She graduated from the Baltic Film and Media School in Tallinn and is a partner in a production company Alasti Kino. Her films are known from strong storytelling, empathy and experimenting with fiction film tools. Liis is also schooled and valued film editor – having edited major festival circling Estonian art house features during past years – Roukli (2015, premiere Palic, Tokyo FF) by Veiko Õunpuu and In The Crosswind (2014, premiere TIFF). The latest documentary she produced - Lenbri Uudu by Eeva Mägi (2017), was premiered in DOKLeipzig. Liis is teaching documentary film and editing and is also a member of the Estonian Guild of Documentarians and Estonian Film Editors Union.

Known For

Free Range
4.9

After being fired from his job at a newspaper for writing a destructive review of a celebrated movie, Fred, an aspiring writer, learns that his girlfriend is pregnant.

Free Range

2013
In the Crosswind
7.1

June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband, Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories. Despite hunger, fear and brutal humiliation Erna never in next fifteen years loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to homeland.

In the Crosswind

2014
Infinite Summer
5.8

On a summer break, Mia and her friends try a meditation app that’s somehow related to the operating system of the Tallinn Zoo, changing the body chemistry of its users into something between pollen and cosmic dust. Mia will need to choose between saving her friends or joining them.

Infinite Summer

2025
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
5.3

CIA agents Palmer and Gagano are tasked with the perilous mission of destroying “The Soviet Union!" As they enter the system using a VR simulation, their mission quickly turns into a delirious trap, far more complex than expected, as the fabric of reality starts unraveling around them.

Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway

2020
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6.5

A documentary about a group of activists in Tallinn who try to improve their quarter.

The New World

2011
Portugal
5.7

Karina and Martin are in a pleasent relation where everyday life flows in an effortlessly accustomed way and no small misbehaviours can shake it’s rush. Life is good. Perhaps it’s this perfection and frequent patterns that make them finally pose a question – is everything to be expected in life? This is a story about following the yearning of your soul. Longing for something other than the present and having the courage to be deliberately lost.

Portugal

2018
Roukli
N/A

Two men on the run cause chaos in a small community that is on the brink of getting swallowed by war.

Roukli

2015
Mälestuste Maja
N/A

Film about a woman who wishes to sell a house full of painful memories and about a real-estate broker whose life intertwines the woman's life. In a world that seemed to be empty they suddenly notice another person - someone who shares a similar destiny. Nothing takes the past away like the future.

Mälestuste Maja

2008
Sundial
N/A

Sundial takes us on a journey through the mists of the Estonian countryside. In each house whose door Liis Nimik opens, live people who have chosen to carve their existence at the fringes of modernity. Far from our tumultuous world, the rhythm of life is tranquil and peaceful. Here, humans seem to have found their place, living in harmony with nature.

Sundial

2023
County Court
N/A

An absurdist court drama where a mother and a father, ex-spouses, fight over the custody of their 5-year old son. However, the whole process takes place in the middle of a grain field instead of the classic court room. On that field the courtroom has no boundaries much like the mother and father whose actual goal is to exact vengeance on each other with no regard to the means used, forgetting their child entirely.

County Court

2021
Out of Fashion
N/A

A documentary following an Estonian fashion designer Reet Aus on a global tour to explore the origin process and the environmental footprints of today's fast paced fashion industry. On the road the mission takes an unexpected turn towards trying to introduce her "upcycling" inspired product line to some of the major fashion retailers to increase awareness of the massive resource waste built into the current product lifecycle.

Out of Fashion

2015
A Loss of Something Ever Felt
N/A

Documentary about the search for Lauri, an Estonian drug addict who left for Colombia

A Loss of Something Ever Felt

2020
The Wayfarers
N/A

This is the story of three different generations of Siberian Estonian women whose ancestors were deported from Estonia as criminals in the 19th century. Instead of prison, however, they ended up in paradise - a fertile land where people quickly built their lives. 170 years later, the situation has reversed: who has already "got used to life here", but for whom, on the eve of the war, it is the last time to return to paradise, which on this occasion is Estonia.

The Wayfarers

2024
The Weight of All the Beauty
N/A

A man walks through a forest and sits in a house. Around him, the spirits of the past roam.

The Weight of All the Beauty

2019
Olga
5.0

Olga, a lonely parking lot guard, sweeps up the snow, that won't cease falling, and waits for her daughter, who keeps her car there. Little by little, the snowdrifts grow above Olga's head. When a twist of fate stops her from meeting her daughter again, all she can do is to see hope where it almost never was before.

Olga

2014
Lynx Man
6.0

A Finnish equivalent of Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, Hannu has a love and connection to nature that surpasses most. It is the rare lynx in particular that has bitten into Hannu’s heart – so much so that he actually claims to be able to speak its language. So when a dead lynx turns up in his forest, he dons an animal mask, crawls down on all fours and sniffs out the mystery through the mire and thicket. With hauntingly beautiful footage captured by hidden cameras throughout the forest, ‘Lynx Man’ paints a colourful and vivid twilight picture of the natural world around us – and of man’s impact on it. For no matter what Hannu does to live in harmony with the animals, he cannot hide from belonging himself to the species that is the lynx’s worst enemy. It makes sense that most of Juha Suonpää’s atmospheric film takes place in the twilight between dream and reality. Here, the vast forests come alive in Hannu’s hypnotic Night Vision footage of the nocturnal life of the lynx.

Lynx Man

2023
Lembri Uudu
N/A

Until the restoration of independence of Estonia in 1991, a collective farm operated in the village of Pähkla in Saaremaa, which employed almost all the villagers. Lembri Uudu also worked there as a tractor driver. After the collapse of the collective farm, most of the villagers lost their jobs and Uudu died. Sometimes, however, it happens that a person's real life force comes out only after his death.

Lembri Uudu

2017