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  • 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.

  • Lil Estonia
    Lil Estonia

    Original title: Lil Eesti

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Taavi Arus

    A new wave. New characters. A new Estonia. Lil Estonia! Documentary by Taavi Arus about the short anatony of a generation in Estonia in 2020.

  • Ruhnu reis ehk Eesti saare eripära
    Ruhnu reis ehk Eesti saare eripära

    2020 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego

  • Music to My Lyrics
    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.

  • Muusikakosmose päikesepoiss Risto Joost
    Muusikakosmose päikesepoiss Risto Joost

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

  • 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.

  • Conversations in Non-existent Space
    Conversations in Non-existent Space

    Original title: Kõnelused olematus ruumis

    2015 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Priit Pääsuke, Mart Taniel

    Documentary follows the searches for identity of creative people through experimental and improvisational music.

  • Heart of a Wolf
    Heart of a Wolf

    Original title: Hundi süda sees

    2015 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Liina Paakspuu

    Heart of A Wolf is a documentary about the nature of Nordic folk metal featuring Metsatöll from Estonia and Finntroll from Finland.

  • Terapeut
    Terapeut

    2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre

  • Inner voice
    Inner voice

    Original title: Sisekõla

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

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

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