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It All Happened In Võru

Original title (in Võro): Kõik sündü Võrol

2018 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

An emotional documentary about life in a small Estonian town during 100 years.

The Republic of Estonia celebrates its 100th anniversary. During the century, the little town of Võru has lived through all the events that have rejoiced or shaken the entire country – gaining and regaining of independence, world wars and deportations, destructions and reconstructions. For people living in Võru, it is the centre of the universe. For them everything happens here. What makes this life worth living?
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Muusikakosmose päikesepoiss Risto Joost

2018 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Jaanus Nõgisto
Tõnu Kõrvits. Moorland Elegies

Original title: Tõnu Kõrvits. Lageda laulud

2018 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A documentary film about a composer Tõnu Kõrvits, his music and the people who are deeply touched by his music.

Tõnu Kõrvits is a composer in his fifth decade who doesn’t open up easily. Though he is one of the most performed Estonian composers, Tõnu prefers to remain in the shadows. His person and music carry a secret that only unravels for those who can see behind the words, who forget themselves in the music and let the sounds Tõnu created take them along on a mystical, poetical journey that changes anyone who arrives at the end. The film “Moorland Elegies” is named after Tõnu’s nine-part choir cycle, based on Emily Brontë’s almost gothic, dark poetry, that invokes spiritual conditions ...
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Family Lies

Original title: Perekonnavaled

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Valentin Kuik, Manfred Vainokivi

“Family Lies” by Valentin Kuik and Manfred Vainokivi is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.

The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald (Roman Baskin), who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei (Tambet Tuisk) must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation of truth might cause a real chaos. “Family ...
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Working Title: Wunderkind

Original title: Tööpealkiri: Imelaps

2012 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

Alex Prior was born in 1992 in London to an English father and a Russian mother. Even as a child he was being called “a little Pavarotti” or “a little Mozart” because of his angelic voice and his composition skills.

Alex Prior was born in 1992 in London to an English father and a Russian mother. Even as a child he was being called “a little Pavarotti” or “a little Mozart” because of his angelic voice and his composition skills. Alex completes his first composition aged eight and enters the St. Petersburg Conservatory aged 13, where he graduates in the composition and conducting master classes in 2010, aged 17. It is his mother in particular who pushes her son's career: She arranges concerts with leading orchestras in Russia and England, she admonishes him to practise and negotiates his contracts. And ...
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Orient Occident

2001 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Arvo Pärt´s work Orient Occident was commissioned for the Berliner Festwochen and the premiere was on September 2000 in Berlin.

Arvo Pärt´s work Orient Occident was commissioned for the Berliner Festwochen and the premiere was on September 2000 in Berlin. Film recorded the rehearsals in Tallinn, together with Arvo Pärt, before the premiere in Estonia on 7 April 2001. It was performed by the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste.
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Nõmme

1999 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Rein Raamat, Helvi Raamat

Documentary commissioned by Nõmme city district government about the former independent garden suburb - Nõmme.

The documentary introduces the history of Nõmme district in Tallinn, its important buildings of great architectural and culture historical value, its humane and friendly natural environment, residents' activities and opportunities for working, pastime and hobbies in late 1990s.
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Silvi Vrait

1989 | Musical film | Director: Toomas Lepp
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Mälestusi suvest

1984 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Toomas Lasmann
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Üks aasta kolmesaja viiekümnest

1982 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves
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