Ivar Heinmaa

Ivar Heinmaa is a well-known independent Estonian cameraman. He has directed an award-winning documentary Wounds of Afghanistan about the Estonian soldiers who fought in Afghanistan as part of the Soviet troops and The Samurai of Chernobyl, a film about the men, who cleaned up the explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986. Various European TV-companies have broadcasted documentaries that Ivar Heinmaa has filmed (e.g. Stalin’s Grandsons, Putinomania, Cuba – sonata Melancólica, I Do Not Dream in English). Heinmaa’s films as a cinematographer or director have screened on television and many film festival programmes. He has also worked as a war correspondent and front-line cameraman in 107 countries during different crises and war situations.

Estonian Film Institute