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  • Neeme Järvi. Trinity
    Neeme Järvi. Trinity

    2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Erik Norkroos

  • Machina Faust
    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.

  • The Real Rannap
    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.

  • Bonus track
    Bonus track

    2016 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Riho Västrik

  • Arvo Pärt - Even if I lose everything
    Arvo Pärt - Even if I lose everything

    Original title: Arvo Pärt - isegi kui ma kõik kaotan

    2015 | Music Documentary, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Dorian Supin

    “Even if I lose everything…,“ Arvo Pärt has written in his workbook. He calls the diary his workbooks. In the course of decades, along with work at musical texts, he has filled those workbooks with his contemplations, with his moments of grief and joy, with his finds, discoveries, worries and experience – with everything that might be called the inner life of an artist.

  • Inner voice
    Inner voice

    Original title: Sisekõla

    2014 | Students film, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Madis Reimund

    What is happening to a composer when his creation is leaving his private space to our common space.

  • Rehearsing Pärt
    Rehearsing Pärt

    Title in Estonian: Proovime Pärti

    2012 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

    A student concert of works by Arvo Pärt was held in 2011 in the Tallinn Swedish St Michael´s Church as a collaboration between the Old Town Music School in Tallinn and the Arvo Pärt Centre. This is a DVD recording of the rehearsals for the concert.

  • Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 Etudes in Pictures
    Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 Etudes in Pictures

    Original title: Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 etüüdi piltides

    2010 | Music Documentary, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Marianne Kõrver

    A documentary film portrait by Marianne Kõrver about Estonian renowned composer Erkki-Sven Tüür.

  • Dialogues. Composer Valentin Silvestrov
    Dialogues. Composer Valentin Silvestrov

    Original title: Dialoogid. Helilooja Valentin Silvestrov

    2008 | Music Documentary, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Dorian Supin

    Valentin Silvestrov is an internationally acknowledged contemporary Ukrainian composer of classical music and regarded as one of finest composers of his generation.

  • Tagasitulek koju
    Tagasitulek koju

    2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maiju Ingman

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