René Vilbre (born 17 May 1970 in
Rakvere
Rakvere is the administrative center, or county seat, of Lääne-Viru County in northern Estonia, about 100 km southeast of Tallinn and 20 km south of the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea.
Rakvere boasts a distinctive architectural feature: th ...
) is an Estonian
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
René Vilbre has received the Children's Film Prize of the Nordic Film Institutes at the
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in 2005 and the Don Quixote Award - Special Mention at the Molodist International Film Festival in 1998.
Vilbre's second feature film ''
I Was Here'' was premiered at the
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (, KVIFF) is an annual film festival held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Eur ...
on September 12, 2008 and in Estonia it became the 5th most successful Estonian film premiere since the 1990s.
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1970 births
Living people
Estonian film directors
Tallinn University alumni
People from Rakvere
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