Rasmus Merivoo (born May 1, 1983 in Russia) is an Estonian director.
A director by education, having since 2006 a bachelor's degree from the chair of Film and Video at Tallinn University.
He's directed TV commercials, music videos and movies.
He's been on the jury of several festivals, conducted film trainings and made music for both films and commercials.
Rasmus Merivoo gained fame as a filmmaker with his cult short film "Tulnukas ehk Valdise pääsemine 11 osas".
In addition, Rasmus Merivoo directed the feature film "Buratino", which premiered in 2009, and the family comedy "Kratt", which premiered in 2020.
His sister is Maarja Merivoo-Parro.
9-year old girl, vacationing with her parents in a remote bog, gets trapped in a secret bunker where an AI-startup is nearing the completion of super-intelligent AI. Both the girl and the AI want to escape.
A documentary about contemporary Estonian artist and feminist Mare Tralla, who started in the stormy 1990s as part of the so-called generation of winners. In addition to being a radical feminist, Mare Tralla is a hidden mother, lecturer, craftsman and designer, and on top of all that, she is also a person who has had to keep a very intimate and dark secret to herself from a very young age.
Kiik, a young car mechanic stuck between the gears of life, finds out that his girlfriend's heart has been won over by a new handsome man. To get rid of the pain in his soul, Kiik asks his filmmaker best friend to join the adventure, with the destination to cut down the tree of eternal love. The journey to the mystical tree becomes thorny, intriguing and criminal.
A young man decides to break in to the hospital, when he is told he cannot go see his sick little sister due to new laws that have been passed in response to a pandemic.
It's December and Christmastime, but outside the summer sun blazes. Something is wrong! The Mayan calendar predicts that the world will end on December 21, 2012. Every Estonian has to decide how they will spend their last days. Rait finally wants to confess his feelings to his lifelong love, the starlet Lenna Kuurmaa. His friend Mihkel, hits his head, goes bonkers, and needs to save the world by sacrificing that very same Lenna to the Sun Gods. Brenda wants to escape her dictatorial mother but insane asylum orderlies chase her. Ervin wins the world's last lottery and is so upset by not having any way to spend it that he wants to die from misery. Confusion reigns, but hope always dies last... And, fortunately, the end finally comes.
Imagine a mix of Repo Man, Oliver! and Pinocchio and you're on the road to grasping the tone of this bizarre Estonian take on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's character Buratino, a wooden boy (or boyus woodenus, as the doctors in the film refer to him). Buratino's virginal mother wishes upon a star for a son and is immediately answered by what can only be called a rape-splinter. The woman gives birth almost immediately to her little wooden Buratino.
After being whacked on the head with a shovel, Valdis no longer shows interest in the things that used to make his life worthwhile: alcohol, techno, cars and fights. His friends desperately try to help him regain his memory, but nothing works.