Vallo Toomla
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Vallo Toomla - Vallo Toomla (born April 8, 1983) is an Estonian film director. He studied theology at the University of Tartu and played in the Tartu University Theater. From 2008 to 2012, he studied film directing at the Baltic Film and Media School, he is a student of Jüri Sillart. Vallo Toomla's first student film "Koolja" (2009) was selected for the Sleepwalkers program of the Dark Nights Film Festival sub-festival and won the award for the best short film in Estonia. His student films have been shown on Estonian National Broadcasting, and the short film "Saatana Vaudeville" (2010) was also screened in Estonian cinemas. In 2013, he completed the animated film "Limonaadi lugu" at the Nukufilm film studio. He made his feature film debut with the film "Delusion", which premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2016. In 2019, he completed the documentary film "Marju Lepajõe. The words of the days" – a portrait film about religious historian, classical philologist and translator, University of Tartu lecturer Marju Lepajões.
