Pill's directorial debut had its U.K. premiere at the Raindance Film Festival six years after the Estonian breakout served as an assistant director on Christopher Nolan's major sci-fi thriller
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Courtesy of Raindance Film Festival A grim, personal real-life case inspired Tõnis Pill’s directorial debut, “Fränk.” When the director was a young boy living in a small Estonian town, a person with an intellectual disability died after tragically falling under a train. A rumor quickly spread that a gang of boys, used to bullying the man, was responsible for pushing him onto the rails. “That gruesome detail was my main motivation to tell his story,” Pill tells Variety after screening the film at the Raindance Film Festival.
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