Mephistopheles
The best comedy of recent years. Or is it a tragicomedy?
"Your film will be a screw-up, of course. I’m SOOO complex that your thoughts, Manfred, can maybe capture only 10 percent of me."
"You won’t get film about him, Manfred! He can give you a clever talk, but he’s rather vacant as a person." (A recommendation from a colleague filmmaker)
From time to time, Mephistopheles manifests himself to the Estonian people through Linnar Priimägi. The released energy gives birth to chaos. Manfred Vainokivi tries his hardest to portray the one who causes it. Unsuccessfully, of course. Because even the largest letters are unreadable in twilight, as Goethe said. And there is a lot of twilight now. At least according to Linnar.
Tiit Tuumalu
Manfred Vainokivi is a producer, cinematographer and director. As the owner of the film production company Filmivabrik, he has directed and produced shorts and feature films. He has directed numerous portrait documentaries, which have also been screened at PÖFF. Together with Valentin Kuik, he directed the feature film "Family Lies" in 2016.
Filmography:
valik/selected: Valli baar (PÖFF 2009, doc), Elu on lill (Life is a Flower, 2010, doc), Tsirkuselaps (Wunderkind, PÖFF 2010, co-dir, doc), Baskin (2012, doc), Perekonnavaled (PÖFF 2016, co-dir), Kirjanikuga voodis (PÖFF 2019), Mephistopheles (PÖFF 2020), The Best of Salieri, ehk mina, eesti režissöör (PÖFF 2021)
Award for Best Baltic Film, grant of 5000€ from Piletilevi
