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  • Gerassimov's Women
    Gerassimov's Women

    Original title: Gerassimovi naised

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Birgit Rosenberg

    Humorous and thoughtful insight to the past and present life of Estonain border-town of Narva as reflected through the elderly women's thoughts and everyday realities.

  • 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.

  • Elizabeth`s Playground
    Elizabeth`s Playground

    Original title: Elizabethi mänguväljak

    2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maris Kerge, Erik Norkroos

    Little Elizabeth is traveling around in a miraculous world of ballet.

  • Mesipuu poole
    Mesipuu poole

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

  • The Call of Silence
    The Call of Silence

    Original title of the film "Vaikuse kutse"

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Madli Lääne

  • The Fencer
    The Fencer

    Original title: Miekkailija

    2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Klaus Härö

    Klaus Härö’s The Fencer is a touching drama about a man who finds meaning in his life through the children who need him. The Finnish entry for the Oscars 2016, Best Foreign Language Film.

  • One More Song
    One More Song

    Original title (in Estonian): "Veel üks laul"

    2013 | Documentary, Observation, Students film | Director: Liis Nimik

  • A Lady in Paris
    A Lady in Paris

    Original title: Eestlanna Pariisis

    2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ilmar Raag

    Drama directed by Ilmar Raag about two Estonian ladies in Paris - an elderly city woman and a plain woman coming from a small town who starts working for the elderly one. The human connection that arises from their relationship gives a new meaning to the lives of both women. Leading roles are played by the legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau and Laine Mägi.

  • Playing Pärt
    Playing Pärt

    Original title: Mängime 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.

  • 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.

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