Who am I Smiling For?

Program:

Documentary competition

Year:

2023

Country:

Estonia

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

61’

Mari has terminal cancer. That’s on top of fighting for custody of her daughter. In the midst of this all stands Oliver, the ever-smiling 12-year-old son. Mari prepares him for her death, how to talk or even play football with her after she passes away. When that day comes, he continues to share his life with her — not even death can separate them. This is a film about a young boy coming of age and navigating his life in a time of profound and irreversible change, finding his own way to grieve.

Schedule

Eeva Mägi

Estonian writer-director based in Tallinn (b. 1987), who’s active in the field of fiction films and documentaries. She graduated from Directing Documentaries at the Baltic Film and Media School in 2015.

Eeva received the Young Filmmaker’s Award by the Estonian Cultural Endowment in 2018, then the DocPoint Tallinn Young Filmmaker Award in 2019.

Filmography: Süda Sõrve sääres (2019), 3rd Octave F (2022)

Creative team

Director

Eeva Mägi

Screenplay

Eeva Mägi, Oliver Cypriano

Camera

Sten-Johan Lill

Editing

Kersti Miilen

Music