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

    Original title: Arvo Pärt - isegi kui ma kõik kaotan

    2015 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | 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.

  • Ester Mägi. Cadenza and motif
    Ester Mägi. Cadenza and motif

    Original title: Ester Mägi. Kadents ja teema

    2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

    One of the most respectable lady of Estonian music, composer Ester Mägi, has written music about sixty years while having remained characteristically conservative.

  • Guardian of the soul
    Guardian of the soul

    Original title: Hingevalvur

    2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Meelis Süld

    One woman with two controversial professions - a criminal investigator and a religious minister.

  • The Russians on Crow Island
    The Russians on Crow Island

    Original title: Varesesaare venelased

    2012 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Sulev Keedus

    Portrait documentary by Sulev Keedus about the scum of the Russian community in Narva - the young people with asocial background who lack courage, hope and will to get out of their hopeless situation.

  • The Wall
    The Wall

    Original title in Estonian: Sein

    2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Anna Hints

  • The New World
    The New World

    Original title: Uus maailm

    2011 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Tootsen

    Jaan Tootseni dokfilm jälgib ühe idealistliku liikumise, Uue Maailma Seltsi sündi, elu ja valu viie aasta jooksul.

  • The Process
    The Process

    Original title in Estonian: Protsess

    2010 | Short, Students film | Director: Vallo Toomla

    Message: Assigned unique roles in life, individuals must search deep within the apparent absurdity of existence to achieve spiritual self-realisation.

  • A Letter from Ruhnu
    A Letter from Ruhnu

    Original title: Kiri Ruhnust

    2009 | Documentary | Director: Heilika Pikkov

    A young woman becomes a school teacher and discovers life in a small island of Ruhnu.

  • Doctor Grossmann's Land of the Gods
    Doctor Grossmann's Land of the Gods

    Original title: Doktor Grossmanni jumalate maa

    2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

    Galina Grossmann is an exceptional woman who paints Jesus, composes an opera about Jesus and performs the musical work with the influences of Estonian folklore to the residents of a retirement home.

  • She
    She

    2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Gadi Lübek

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