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Tell Me (2021)

Original title: Räägi ära

Documentary Duration 75:00

Full crew-list

In April 2020 during unprecedented worldwide lockdowns, voicemail numbers were set up around the world.
Over the following months, hundreds of anonymous voices were collected.
This is a portrait of humanity in isolation.

Directed by
Marta Pulk
Rodrigo Baptista
Agustín Barrutia
Sebastián López Borda
Rupert Clague
João Carlos Couto
Tom Hamburger
Quentin Lazzarotto
César Málaga
Tanya Marar
Ashley Mosher
Sonja Ortiz
Brett Pedersen
Fermín Pedros
Pablo Radice
Norika Sefa
Gerónimo Tanoira
Natalia Trzcina
Lucía Valdemoros
Shen Wei
Kevin Zayat

Editor - Jaak Ollino Jr
Sound Designer - Gabriel Solis
Music Composer - Chihei Hatakeyama
Re-recording mixer - Gabriel Solis
Colorist - Henri Piiroja
VFX - Mattias Naan
Online Editor - Tanel Toomsalu
Post Production Supervisor - Hendrik Mägar
Key art design - Omar Qubain
Title design - Margus Tamm

Executive producers - Tanya Marar, Marta Pulk
Producer - Tanya Marar
Consulting Producer - Amir Amirani
Associate Producer - Atilla Salih Yücer
Line Producer - Karolina Veetamm
Distribution Advisory Services - Jon Reiss
Lawyer - Richard Moxon
Accounting - Talvi Niiholm
Music Rights - Christian Siddell

CHAPTERS
In order of appearance

CHINA
Directed by Shen Wei
Co-producer - Communication University of China
Production assistant - Wang Yandi

USA
Directed by Ashley Mosher
Assistant director - Mark Millhone

PERU
Directed by César Málaga

BRAZIL
Directed by Rodrigo Baptista, João Carlos Couto, Tom Hamburger
Director of photography – São Paulo . Helena Wolfenson

GERMANY
Directed by Sonja Ortiz
Co-director - Marta Pulk
Director of photography - Agustín Barrutia
Camera Assistant - Juan Roca
Unit Production Manager - Martin Granados
Unit Production Assistant - Paz Carreira
Pre-Production Assistant - Marit Woelke

UK
Directed by Rupert Clague
Cinematographers - Fermín Pedros, Pablo Radice, Gerónimo Tanoira, Natalia Trzcina, Kevin Zayat, Sebastián López Borda

FRANCE
Directed by Quentin Lazzarotto
Drone footage - Léo Benoit à la Guillaume

JORDAN
Directed by Tanya Marar
Archives - Ali Said Malhas

ITALY
Voices collected by Natascia Radice
Directed by Marta Pulk
Director of photography - Aivo Rannik
Production designer - Joanna Juhkam
1AC - Gunnar Laal
Gaffer - Jako Krull
Performers - Pääsu-Liis Kens, Joonas Tagel

ARGENTINA
Directed by Agustín Barrutia, Fermín Pedros, Pablo Radice, Gerónimo Tanoira, Natalia Trzcina, Lucía Valdemoros, Kevin Zayat

ESTONIA
Directed by Marta Pulk
Director of photography - Aivo Rannik
Co-producer - Get Shot Films / Kadi Freja Felt
Production assistant - Aili Maarja Mäeniit

TURKEY
Directed by Marta Pulk
Director of photography - Aivo Rannik
Production designer - Joanna Juhkam
1AC - Gunnar Laal
Gaffer - Jako Krull

KOSOVO
Directed by Norika Sefa

CANADA
Directed by Brett Pedersen
Co-directors - Amr Hisham / Inverted Taco, Marta Pulk
Director of photography - Aivo Rannik
Additional media - Pond5

COLOMBIA
Directed by Sebastián López Borda
Produced by I'm Not a Robot

Translations - Aabwell Translation, Kersti Hansen
Subtitling - Eliis Paas

ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED AND RECORDED BY
Chihei Hatakeyama

ADDITIONAL MUSIC
THE SWAN
Carnival of the Animals, XIII. Le Cygne
Written by Camille Saint-Saëns
Performed by Clara Rockmore, theremin, and Nadia Reisenberg, piano
Courtesy of The Nadia Reisenberg / Clara Rockmore Foundation and Delos Productions

TELL ME / THE ENDING
Composed by Gabriel Solis
2021

SUPPORTED BY
Estonian Film Institute / Filipp Kruusvall
Estonian Cultural Endowement / Tristan Priimägi

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO
Micah Van Hove
Natascia Radice
Werner Herzog Foundation

Telia Eesti AS
Estonian Emergency Response Centre
Cinerama
Saksavalgus
Kafka Films
Get Shot Films
Kino Artis
Allfilm
My Home Crowd Source 
Solis Sound OÜ
Elo Võrk, Diana Lepits, Toomas Sau
Heiko Leesment, Sigrid Karu
Gunnar Laal
Hendrik Saks
Karolina Veetamm
Kadi Freja Felt
Monica Raud
Liisa Pulk
Martin Rebaza Ponce de León
Ali Said Malhas
Khalil Miqdadi

THE FILMMAKERS ALSO THANK

Association La Fraternelle
Ida Tallinna Keskhaigla / Inge Suder, Marko Mägi
Jordan Pioneers / Khaled Haddad
Optimist Creative
Viru Keskus

Kerem Altuğ
Melissa Alvarez
Jim Ashilevi
Lelo Jimmy Baptista
David Bensimon
Juan Bernal
Camilla Carnevali
Théophile Charenat
Irene D'agostino
Erika Diaz
Arthur Dairaine
Sonia Isabel De Jesus Costa
Yannis Drapier
Özgür Eken
François Gaudel
Enzo Benoit à la Guillaume
Monique Henriet
Paul Hijazin
Sohrab Jahanbani
Liine Jänes
Ilmar Kahro
Rasmus Kosseson
Oskar Lehemaa
Dr Carlos Eduardo Lesmes López
Rele Liiv
Mattias Lill
Liivi Linno
Elina Litvinova
Johannes Lõhmus
Alex Maitret
Maria Libertad Marquez
Juan Jose Montoya
Bechara Mouzannar
Hendrik Mägar
Timothy Nielsen
Liis Nimik
Sirje & Jaak Ollino
Tommasso Ortino
Valentina Ortino
Anwen Ortiz
Dominique Piazzolla
Mirtel Pohla
Matis Rei
Triin Ruumet
Tomasso Santambrogio
Dirar Shawagfeh
Sander Sillavee
Sonia Solis
Ahmet Emre Tanyıldız
Maris Teder
Laura Trujillo
Derrick Tsang
Jaan Tätte jr
Madis Tüür
Kamen Velkovsky
Barış Özbiçer
Aylin Ünsal
Milo Urbay Zevallos

© A Very Delicate Man / Pink Llama 2021

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