第51届卡罗维发利国际电影节 获得东方阵营奖(提名)。获奖影视: 《间谍与诗人》
第37届多伦多国际电影节 获得发现奖(提名)。获奖影视: 《采蘑菇的夫妻》
第37届多伦多国际电影节 获得国际影评人联盟奖 国际影评人发现奖(提名)。获奖影视: 《采蘑菇的夫妻》
Toomas Hussar (b. 1962, Tallinn) is a screenwriter, director and actor whose adventurous nature is reflected in his myriad interests, his education and much else besides. In order to avoid conscription he began studying mathematics, then theology – a rare subject at the time – before ending up at acting school. Perestroika brought new priorities and Hussar moved into directing, initially shooting commercials and clips, and later award-winning stage plays and television series as well. The quirky poetic style of his film debut Mushrooming (Seenelkäik, 2012), about a politician and a rock star lost in a dense forest, won over audiences at Karlovy Vary, Mannheim and Toronto. The director’s playfully sophisticated weave of black comedy and thriller elements allows him to comment on both the fate of his heroes and, by extension, the fate of Estonia as a whole, a feat he also pulls off in The Spy and the Poet (2016).