
Directing
Mait Laas
Born
1970-08-04 (56)
Place of birth
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Known for
Directing
Credits
18 titles
Mait Laas (born August 4, 1970 in Tallinn) is an Estonian animated film director, producer, scenarist and artist.
Known for
NRA documentary with elements of animation about 85-year-old Elbert Tuganov and 80-year-old Heino Pars - two animators and artists who despite changing times have become masters of their domain. The exact time of the real events in the documentary is not actually essential. It may be yesterday, today, tomorrow... And it may happen to you... and to me... However, in the film, it all took place in the 1950s, the time when the first Sputnik was launched to space, rivers were reversed and hydraulic power plants built.
Kings of the Time
2008
NRFreedom is looking for a form to manifest itself. An allegoric story of Architect-Matchstickman who helps to give the life for the new Generation.
Generatio
2005
7.0A movie about the life in a small Estonian city in the 1950s. Young people face an instinct for survival that shatters ideals but can also destroy lives.
The Sunny Kids
1992
10.0This story is about a young man who wants to go behind the horizon...
The Way to Nirvana
2000
10.0A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm located in Tallinn, Estland. Here we can follow the work in the studio which was founded in the Soviet era and has survived heavy censorship and global competition.
Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion
2023
8.0Love blossoms between Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and Lisa, a collector of singing seashells who dreams about love.
Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: A Rapid Love Story
2013
Film credits
Behind the camera
NRA documentary with elements of animation about 85-year-old Elbert Tuganov and 80-year-old Heino Pars - two animators and artists who despite changing times have become masters of their domain. The exact time of the real events in the documentary is not actually essential. It may be yesterday, today, tomorrow... And it may happen to you... and to me... However, in the film, it all took place in the 1950s, the time when the first Sputnik was launched to space, rivers were reversed and hydraulic power plants built.
Kings of the Time
2008
NRA documentary with elements of animation about 85-year-old Elbert Tuganov and 80-year-old Heino Pars - two animators and artists who despite changing times have become masters of their domain. The exact time of the real events in the documentary is not actually essential. It may be yesterday, today, tomorrow... And it may happen to you... and to me... However, in the film, it all took place in the 1950s, the time when the first Sputnik was launched to space, rivers were reversed and hydraulic power plants built.
Kings of the Time
2008
NRA documentary with elements of animation about 85-year-old Elbert Tuganov and 80-year-old Heino Pars - two animators and artists who despite changing times have become masters of their domain. The exact time of the real events in the documentary is not actually essential. It may be yesterday, today, tomorrow... And it may happen to you... and to me... However, in the film, it all took place in the 1950s, the time when the first Sputnik was launched to space, rivers were reversed and hydraulic power plants built.
Kings of the Time
2008
NRFreedom is looking for a form to manifest itself. An allegoric story of Architect-Matchstickman who helps to give the life for the new Generation.
Generatio
2005
NRFreedom is looking for a form to manifest itself. An allegoric story of Architect-Matchstickman who helps to give the life for the new Generation.
Generatio
2005
10.0This story is about a young man who wants to go behind the horizon...
The Way to Nirvana
2000
10.0This story is about a young man who wants to go behind the horizon...
The Way to Nirvana
2000
8.0Love blossoms between Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and Lisa, a collector of singing seashells who dreams about love.
Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: A Rapid Love Story
2013
6.3Six young filmmakers from Central and East Europe developed shorts about the theme of 'generation'.
Lost and Found
2005
6.3Six young filmmakers from Central and East Europe developed shorts about the theme of 'generation'.
Lost and Found
2005
Anything can happen at sea. You are eating your daily sandwich on the deck of the ship when suddenly some shark with its dorsal fin swollen from greed, or gigantic sly seagull, or a spicy storm that has just capsized a spice ship, attacks you. That is just the way it is at sea, and those storm are the absolute worst. But nevertheless, as opposed to other ships, one ship must always be at sea, even if it is raining stone herrings from the sky!
The Lightship Kulis
2001
Urbanized youth is searching for his soul - his vital force.
Day Light
1998
Urbanized youth is searching for his soul - his vital force.
Day Light
1998
NRA Christmas gnome visits Miriam.
Miriam's Christmas Gnome
2003
6.0A woman sets out to cut the rye, but what lies behind the curiosity of her ill husband about just when the work will be complete?
A Husband And A Wife. A Votian Story
2017
NRIn this film, skeptical city people from the information society who are surrounded by high technology meet mythological beings from the legends of their ancestors in intriguing and comical situations.
Somebody Else
1996
