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Machina Faust

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

An intimate documentary about the internationally renowned Estonian musician, saxophone player and improvisational jazz composer Maria Faust.

An intimate documentary about the internationally renowned Estonian musician, saxophone player and improvisational jazz composer Maria Faust. Maria’s career started at the Kuressaare Music School where she quickly realised that she wanted to be an artist. She landed at the Royal Danish Academy of Music because she’s always wished to have her music played but was forced to only play old, famous composers in Estonia. The musician’s journey in the film culminates with her piece ’Mass of Mary’, with the film observing the rehearsals and preparations for the premiere. The creative source of Maria Faust’s work is strongly tied to ...
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Marju. The Call of the Heart

Original title: Marju. Südame kutse

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

A portrait film about Marju Länik, one of the best singers in the history of Estonian pop music.

How did Marju's successful and glamorous stage career of more than forty years begin and what kind of life does she live in today's Estonia? The camera followed the pop diva's actions for almost a year, and for the first time a woman who is exceptionally devoted to music opens herself up to viewers so thoroughly and honestly. Known as a skilled driver, Marju takes us to performances both on big stages, in modern clubs, and at cute little anniversary parties. But what is the thing that Marju regrets the most in her life?
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The Real Rannap

Original title: Päris Rannap

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aleksander Ots, Kaidi Klein

Estonian music is priceless, but his personality is very complex and contradictory. The authors of the film were above all attracted to the personality of the composer, driven by the desire to pull the mask off the maestro and show the real Rannap to the extent possible.

Composer and pianist Rein Rannap’s contribution to Estonian music is priceless, but his personality is very complex and contradictory. In numerous TV shows, viewers have met exactly the Rannap that he chooses to show them at that very moment. He has a superb ability to put on a mask and present carefully composed text in interviews. When cameras are rolling, Rein slips into his role. He can play the role very colourfully, creating conflicts and throwing juicy comments at singers at rehearsals. The authors of the film were above all attracted to the personality of the composer, driven by the ...
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The Tour of Dreams

Original title: Unistus Ameerika tuurist

2021 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Madis Ligema, Taavi Arus

When no public recognition at home, a gospel band Robirohi plans the tour to the source of gospel music, to perform at the halls of fame in Kentucky, USA.

This documentary is a film about bluegrass, gospel and god, in one of the most secular countries in the world. "Robirohi" is not a very well known band in Estonia. Most of their concerts are held in churches and congregations, their soulful music gets little plays on non-christian radio stations. Nearly all band members have felt enlightenment: "It is as if a warm wave of light passes through all your body". All members but one. The band would love to be famous one day – but is gospel the right path to take? They book their dream tour to America, ...
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U.q.

2021 | Feature film, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Murd

A documentary about the life and music of Uku Kuut, from the Soviet Union to Los Angeles and to speakers all around the world.

To understand the international phenomenon of Uku Kuut means to understand the ability of different musical niches, sub-genres and hidden creative explosions to not only exist, butflourish, completely independently of the mainstream. Kuut’s life, mothered by Maryn E.Coote (who you may know as the Estonian Jazz diva Marju Kuut), took him from the Soviet Union to refuge in Sweden, music studios in Los Angeles, back to a re-independent Estonia and later, fighting ALS, to speakers all around the world. A Greek comedy captured on 8mm, VHS and BETA tape.
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A Question of Recording

2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Eik Erik Sikk

The short documentary made by director-editor Eik Erik Sikk, DoP Tristan Luige and sound engineer Ralf Schneider creates an insight to the creative process of two Estonian music producers, Sander Mölder and Sammalhabe.

“A Question of Recording” presents a small overview of two Estonian music producer’s creative processes and their personalities: how and why do they work with sound art. The main cause of this project is to record local artists in their own element, in a environment where they feel safe, and fit it all into the narrow frame of a portrait story. Being the first try in this format, the film opens the gate for making similar clips in the future, mapping out the contemporary Estonian music makers like a visual almanac.
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Ruhnu reis ehk Eesti saare eripära

2020 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego
Music to My Lyrics

Original title in Estonian: Muusika mu sõnadele

2019 | Students film, TV Show | Director: Andres Tarto

TV-show made by Siim-Martin Kaasik, Andres Tarto ja Kirsi Lattu, is about lyrics and writing music.

TV-show where two bands write a song to the same lyrics, which have been written specially for these bands by a well-known author. Both bands have three hours to write a new song. In the end both bands perform the song and musicians from the other band and the author of the lyrics share their first impressions.
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Bridges Of Time

Original title: Ajasillad

2018 | Documentary | Director: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede

"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.

Meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
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Muusikakosmose päikesepoiss Risto Joost

2018 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Jaanus Nõgisto