Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt

1935-09-11 Paide, Estonia 168 Credits

Biography

Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrʋo ˈpært]; born September 11, 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. His most performed works include Fratres (1977), Spiegel im Spiegel (1978), and Für Alina (1976). From 2011 to 2018, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world, and the second most performed in 2019. The Arvo Pärt Centre, in ...

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Rebel with a Bow Tie

Rebel with a Bow Tie

2025

as Self (uncredited)

Acting

The playfully documented grand finale of Toomas Hendrik Ilves’s 10 years as president. Jaan Tootsen’s documentary follows President Toomas Hendrik Ilv...

Beyond the Homestead

Beyond the Homestead

2024

Music

Two lifelong friend's friendship is jeopardized after a new boy comes into town. Trapped on a farm with a drunken father breathing down his neck, Eden...

The Endless - Parts I And II

2024

Music

Amid Mexico's humanitarian crisis, with over 100,000 people missing due to organized crime, The Endless presents a poignant collection of testimonies ...

Por la gloria de sus padres

Por la gloria de sus padres

2023

Songs

Documentary focused on the experiences and emotions of a group of friends who walk the Camino de Santiago.

Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo

Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo

2022

Music, Additional Soundtrack

7.0
Revoir Paris

Revoir Paris

2022

Additional Soundtrack

7.1

Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to m...

Men

Men

2022

Additional Soundtrack

6.1

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or s...

7 Lakes, 7 Lives

7 Lakes, 7 Lives

2021

Acting

Dabiz Riaño explores the scenic lakes of Eastern Europe in this ode to being differently-abled and the wonder of being alive.

Experience of Goodness

Experience of Goodness

2021

Music

At the age of three Lydie Dattas had a spiritual experience thanks to a nun that took care of her while she was ill. That experience followed her thro...

Birds of Paradise

Birds of Paradise

2021

Additional Soundtrack

6.5

Two dancers at an elite ballet academy in Paris must compete for a contract to join the highly coveted Opéra National de Paris as they confront their ...

My Name Is Pauli Murray

My Name Is Pauli Murray

2021

Additional Soundtrack

8.0

Overlooked by history, Pauli Murray was a legal trailblazer whose ideas influenced RBG's fight for gender equality and Thurgood Marshall's landmark ci...

Sweet Thing

Sweet Thing

2020

Additional Soundtrack, Music

6.7

For Billie and Nico, life with their father is a roller-coaster ride of playfulness and unease. When he is in the grip of alcohol, tears flow and thei...

Better Days

Better Days

2019

Additional Soundtrack

8.1

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressur...

A Hidden Life

A Hidden Life

2019

Additional Soundtrack

7.2

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

From Matti with Love

From Matti with Love

2019

Additional Soundtrack

4.7

Divorced, middle-aged Matti picks up Maša near the Finnish-Russian border. Maša was waiting for a different man called Jukka, but agrees to go with Ma...

I am the Human thy God

2019

Music

There was no room for other animals in the ark. The only one left is the king of creation, the worst of all animals, human.

That Pärt Feeling

That Pärt Feeling

2019

as Himself

8.0
Acting

The great composer Arvo Pärt at work, whilst the artists who perform his music and are inspired by it illustrate the different aspects of the phenomen...

Valley of the Rulers

Valley of the Rulers

2019

Music

A poetic and metaphysical view on a daily life routine in a distant nursing home, on a top of the mountain in Uzice, Serbia – the closest place to hea...

Not Even a Gravestone

Not Even a Gravestone

2018

Original Music Composer

Twin brothers August and Simon--born and raised in a brothel owned by their degenerate father--slowly discover the horrific reality of their upbringin...

The Apparition

The Apparition

2018

Additional Soundtrack, Music

6.1

Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate...

Wildebeest

Wildebeest

2017

Additional Soundtrack

6.5

Going on a safari is a dream for many. For middle-aged couple Linda and Troyer, it turns into a horribly real adventure when they get left behind in t...

Novitiate

Novitiate

2017

Additional Soundtrack

6.4

In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing churc...

Twenty Two

Twenty Two

2017

Music

7.6

Follow the lives of the elderly survivors who were forced into sex slavery as “Comfort Women” by the Japanese during World War II. At the time of fil...

Loveless

Loveless

2017

Additional Soundtrack

7.3

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a...

Song to Song

Song to Song

2017

Additional Soundtrack

5.5

In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook ...

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

2017

Additional Soundtrack

6.3

A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the...

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

2016

Additional Soundtrack

7.2

2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch. It is almost the only information about the artist of The Garden of Earthly Delight...

Cracking the Shakespeare Code

Cracking the Shakespeare Code

2016

Music

7.5

Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary playwright William Shakespeare's works that reveals a...

The Master

The Master

2015

Music

7.0

A dog, Popi, and a monkey named Huhuu are waiting for their Master to come home. But one day it becomes clear that he’s not going to be coming home an...

The Daughter

The Daughter

2015

Additional Soundtrack

6.3

In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with h...

The Wait

The Wait

2015

Additional Soundtrack

6.3

In the vast rooms of a beautiful Sicilian villa, Anna receives an unexpected guest. Twenty-something Jeanne has arrived from France, declaring herself...

Knight of Cups

Knight of Cups

2015

Additional Soundtrack

5.7

Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in...

Maestro

Maestro

2015

Acting

Maestro follows Grammy award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi and an array of brilliant musicians as they perform to sold-out music halls across the worl...

The Lost Paradise

The Lost Paradise

2015

as Himself

Acting

He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels at...

Adam's Passion

Adam's Passion

2015

Music

7.0

Adam’s Passion is the moving first collaboration between two “masters of slow motion who harmonize perfectly with each other” (Frankfurter Allgemeine ...

Arvo Pärt: Even if I lose everything

Arvo Pärt: Even if I lose everything

2015

as Himself

Acting

Documentary about now 80-years old composer Arvo Pärt and his music, philosophy and family.

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

2015

Additional Soundtrack

6.9

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his pr...

The Club

The Club

2015

Additional Soundtrack

6.9

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they hav...

Standing Tall

Standing Tall

2015

Additional Soundtrack

7.2

The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirele...

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Avengers: Age of Ultron

2015

Additional Soundtrack

7.3

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fat...

Mia madre

Mia madre

2015

Additional Soundtrack

6.7

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher

2014

Additional Soundtrack

6.7

The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 ...

The Way He Looks

The Way He Looks

2014

Additional Soundtrack

8.0

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best fri...

Six by Sondheim

Six by Sondheim

2013

Additional Soundtrack

7.1

This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.

The Inner Jungle

2013

Additional Soundtrack

6.3

Before embarking on a long scientific expedition to the Pacific, Juan takes his girlfriend Gala to the town where he spent his childhood. During the v...

Triptych

Triptych

2013

Additional Soundtrack

6.4

Adapted and inspired from the play Lipsynch, Triptyque is a contemporary urban saga that tells the story of Michelle a schizophrenic bookseller, Marie...

Mop King

Mop King

2013

Additional Soundtrack

1.0

Jed Wilkins is a free-lance maid and an embarrassment to his family. While his parents are on vacation, he runs into a drifter girl who changes the ma...

Blue Caprice

Blue Caprice

2013

Additional Soundtrack

5.8

A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.

Violette

Violette

2013

Additional Soundtrack

6.1

Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relation...

About Time

About Time

2013

Additional Soundtrack

7.9

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel t...

Childhood Land Siberia

Childhood Land Siberia

2013

Music

The documentary "Childhood Land Siberia" continues the series of films about the deportations to Siberia, commited by the Soviet Union as part of an e...

The East

The East

2013

Additional Soundtrack

6.6

An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group ...

The Great Beauty

The Great Beauty

2013

Additional Soundtrack

7.5

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks...

The Place Beyond the Pines

The Place Beyond the Pines

2013

Additional Soundtrack

7.0

A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a co...

To the Wonder

To the Wonder

2013

Additional Soundtrack

5.8

After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, w...

The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs

2012

Additional Soundtrack

6.1

During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has becom...

Augustine

Augustine

2012

Additional Soundtrack

5.2

Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis,...

Inescapable

Inescapable

2012

Additional Soundtrack

5.3

Twenty-five years ago Adib, a promising young officer in the Syrian military police, suddenly left Damascus under suspicious circumstances. Abandoning...

The Letter

The Letter

2012

Additional Soundtrack

4.5

A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is ...

Bells of Europe

2011

Music

A journey through faith in Europe.

Gvido Zvaigzne

Gvido Zvaigzne

2011

Music

In January 2011, Latvia commemorated the 20th anniversary of the tragic events that occurred in January 1991. Film producer Andris Slapiņš was killed,...

This Must Be the Place

This Must Be the Place

2011

Additional Soundtrack

7.0

A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.

The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley

The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley

2011

Additional Soundtrack

0.5

Joan's life is passing her by. Her job is dull and at home she looks after her elderly Mother. There is nothing remarkable about her - apart from an a...

Eighty Letters

Eighty Letters

2011

Additional Soundtrack

6.5

The story takes place in Czechoslovakia in 1987. The father has defected to England and the mother and her son are planning to leave the country to re...

We Have a Pope

We Have a Pope

2011

Additional Soundtrack

6.8

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince...

Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

2010

Additional Soundtrack

7.1

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulner...

Simple

Simple

2010

Additional Soundtrack

Alfonso is an amateur filmmaker, in love with David (best friend of his best friend's girlfriend), and he writes him a screenplay so he could star in ...

The Secret Life of Chaos

The Secret Life of Chaos

2010

Additional Soundtrack

6.8

Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hid...

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher

2009

as Himself

6.6
Acting

On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder of the ...

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher

2009

Music

6.6

On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder of the ...

Hungry Hills

Hungry Hills

2009

Additional Soundtrack

6.2

In 1954 after two years in a home for boys, Snit Mandolin, 15, returns home to his seemingly unhinged and reclusive aunt Matilda. Defeated by a commun...

The Young Victoria

The Young Victoria

2009

Additional Soundtrack

7.2

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mot...

Elegy of Wood

2009

Additional Soundtrack

A student film inspired by the life and work of Jan Šimek.

Elegy

Elegy

2008

Additional Soundtrack

6.3

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Casti...

The Banishment

The Banishment

2008

Original Music Composer, Additional Soundtrack

7.1

While vacationing in the countryside at his childhood home, a woman suddenly reveals to her husband that she is expecting a child – but not his.

There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood

2007

Additional Soundtrack

8.1

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image...

In Memory of Me

In Memory of Me

2007

Additional Soundtrack

6.6

Investigates the life a young man who has decided to enter a Jesuit monastery in Venice, but is then overcome by agonizing doubts before his ordinatio...

The Unforeseen

The Unforeseen

2007

Additional Soundtrack

5.8

A documentary about the development around Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and nature's unexpected response to being threatened by human interference...

The Good Shepherd

The Good Shepherd

2006

Additional Soundtrack

6.3

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young ...

Goya's Ghosts

Goya's Ghosts

2006

Additional Soundtrack

6.6

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to h...

Times and Winds

Times and Winds

2006

Additional Soundtrack

7.3

In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. The...

Candy

Candy

2006

Additional Soundtrack

7.1

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are...

Huldufólk 102

Huldufólk 102

2006

Additional Soundtrack

6.0

Beneath the quiet veneer of Iceland lies an invisible nation of Hidden People. This fascinating phenomenon, rarely discussed with outsiders, not only ...

Bang Bang Orangutang

Bang Bang Orangutang

2005

Additional Soundtrack

5.0

An overworked and stressed out man in the middle of his career causes the worst tragedy that can happen to a family...

The Giant Buddhas

The Giant Buddhas

2005

Additional Soundtrack, Music

7.0

Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for 1,50...

The Buried Forest

The Buried Forest

2005

Music

6.4

Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest...

Time to Leave

Time to Leave

2005

Additional Soundtrack

6.5

Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable wit...

Phantom Limb

Phantom Limb

2005

Additional Soundtrack

6.9

The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of the...

After the Day Before

After the Day Before

2004

Music

6.5

The details of a young girl's brutal murder are told through manipulated chronology and fragmented storylines.

Notre Musique

Notre Musique

2004

Music

6.7

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war ...

Dead Man's Shoes

Dead Man's Shoes

2004

Additional Soundtrack

7.1

A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.

Hawaii, Oslo

Hawaii, Oslo

2004

Additional Soundtrack

6.8

Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of people who cross each other's path without necessarily knowing each other, during the hottest day of the yea...

Day and Night

Day and Night

2004

Additional Soundtrack

6.5

Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody underst...

Fahrenheit 9/11

Fahrenheit 9/11

2004

Additional Soundtrack

7.1

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan...

Promised Land

Promised Land

2004

Additional Soundtrack

5.2

"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and ...

Red Lights

Red Lights

2004

Additional Soundtrack

5.5

A cross-country trip turns out to be a nightmare for a troubled couple.

The Barbarian Invasions

The Barbarian Invasions

2003

Additional Soundtrack

7.1

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer....

Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me

Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me

2003

Additional Soundtrack

9.0

A series of poems.

Soldiers of Salamina

Soldiers of Salamina

2003

Additional Soundtrack

6.6

Professor Lola Sánchez investigates the truth behind the events experienced by Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of the Falange Española party...

Japón

Japón

2003

Additional Soundtrack, Thanks

6.7

A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old religious wom...

Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue

Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue

2002

as Himself

8.0
Acting

Documentary covering three years in the life of composer Arvo Pärt.

Abandon

Abandon

2002

Additional Soundtrack

4.8

A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a t...

Swept Away

Swept Away

2002

Additional Soundtrack

4.8

Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue.

Gerry

Gerry

2002

Original Music Composer

6.1

Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble...

In the Darkness of Time

In the Darkness of Time

2002

Music

7.5

Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora’s box which hides all the...

Heaven

Heaven

2002

Additional Soundtrack

6.4

Cate Blanchett stars as Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, who has seen many friends, including her husband, fall victim to drug over...

C'est la vie

C'est la vie

2001

Additional Soundtrack

7.0

Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything anymore. There he meets Suzanne, a volunteer who is d...

War Photographer

War Photographer

2001

Original Music Composer, Additional Soundtrack

7.5

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Mostly Martha

Mostly Martha

2001

Additional Soundtrack

6.7

Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. B...

In Praise of Love

In Praise of Love

2001

Music

6.6

Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, argume...

Lauzon Lauzone

2001

Additional Soundtrack

Wit

Wit

2001

Additional Soundtrack

7.3

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

After the Reconciliation

After the Reconciliation

2000

Music

7.1

An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life.

Closed Eyes

Closed Eyes

2000

Additional Soundtrack

Vincent and Olivier have an intense, rocky relationship: Vincent evades tenderness, just as he does desire, forcing the couple to hunt for a third par...

A Kind of Hush

A Kind of Hush

1999

Music, Additional Soundtrack

Six teens who were traumatized by child abuse early in their lives come together to form a gang that ultimately plots revenge against the ones who com...

Simons film

1999

Additional Soundtrack

Documentary feature about the controversial and eccentric Simon Spies, Denmark's first charter travel magnate, featuring plentiful archive footage and...

The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line

1998

Additional Soundtrack

7.4

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselve...

Wintersleepers

Wintersleepers

1997

Additional Soundtrack

7.0

Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema...

Johns

Johns

1996

Additional Soundtrack

5.4

It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night a...

Grisha

Grisha

1996

7.0
Acting

An up-close look into the life of the often misunderstood movie director Grigori Kromanov through the lens of old friends and colleagues.

Mother Night

Mother Night

1996

Additional Soundtrack

6.7

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real...

Hamsun

Hamsun

1996

Additional Soundtrack

7.2

Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during ...

Hiroshima

Hiroshima

1995

Additional Soundtrack

8.0

Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the...

Two by Dove

Two by Dove

1995

Music

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Royal Swedish Ballet perform two works by choreographer Ulysses Dove, "Vespers" and "Dancing on the Fro...

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

1994

Additional Soundtrack

6.7

Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighbo...

Hail, Sarajevo

Hail, Sarajevo

1993

Music

6.8

A short two-minute rumination on the once volatile situation during the period of the Bosnian War presented in the form of a photo-montage with accomp...

Cage

1993

Music

A cinematographic attempt at a maximum of exertion and a maximum of relaxation based on the thoughts of John Cage, Chuang Tzu and others.

Lessons of Darkness

Lessons of Darkness

1992

Additional Soundtrack

7.8

Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed ...

The Lovers on the Bridge

The Lovers on the Bridge

1991

Additional Soundtrack

7.4

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would ...

Goodbye to Cali

Goodbye to Cali

1990

Additional Music

This two-part documentary series made for regional television captures a crucial moment in Cali and Ospina's relationship with its city: a crossroads ...

Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning

Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning

1990

as Himself

1.0
Acting

Arvo Pärt is regarded as one of the most original avant-garde composers. This documentary shows Pärt as a deeply spiritual man whose work is bound up ...

Queen of Hearts

Queen of Hearts

1989

Additional Soundtrack

6.7

Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neigh...

Testament

Testament

1988

Additional Soundtrack

Focuses on the Kwame Nkrumah era in Ghanaian history and paints a portrait of a female African government minister forced into exile after a coup d'ét...

Rachel River

Rachel River

1988

Additional Soundtrack, Original Music Composer

7.0

A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.

The Paper Bridge

The Paper Bridge

1987

Music

7.3

Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckerman returns to the Europe...

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

1986

Music

6.2

Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundraising and casting stage of the process. He calls upo...

Pilot Pirx's Inquest

Pilot Pirx's Inquest

1979

Original Music Composer

5.7

Pirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some 'nonlinears' (an experimental model of android) for use as crewmem...

Arvo Pärt in November 1978

1978

as Self (uncredited)

Acting

Arvo Pärt and Lithuanian chamber orchestra are rehearsing for Old and Medieval music festival in Tallinn

Tracks on Snow

Tracks on Snow

1978

Music

Ants Jõgi (1892-1983) is a dignified gentleman whose main profession in life has been acting. He also has a spirit of an artist and an artisan. The 85...

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

1976

as Piano Player at the Restaurant

3.5
Acting

In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transp...

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

1976

Original Music Composer

3.5

In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transp...

Colourful Dreams

Colourful Dreams

1975

Original Music Composer

6.6

Little Kati spends her summer at her grandma's. Her playmates are the village boys and the whole countryside - animals, flowers, the wind and stones. ...

Täheke

Täheke

1974

Music

A story about a boy who dreams of performing great heroic deeds, but in reality turns out to be lazy and misses out on the reward he longs for.

Spring in the Forest

Spring in the Forest

1974

Original Music Composer

4.2

Based on the novel “Ukuaru” by Veera Saar, a story about Minna, a young woman who has to make choices in the name of her true love, home, and the cont...

Sisters

Sisters

1974

Music

5.0

Two sisters squabble and fight with each other over the course of their lives.

Pallid

Pallid

1973

Music

The characters of this film are the balls. They represent the idea that relations between people are fragile and it is very difficult to correct relat...

Underwater

Underwater

1973

Music

This is a fairytale about two boy-dolls who happen to be in the underwater world in the middle of fish and other habitants of the bottom of the ocean.

Colored Pencils

Colored Pencils

1973

Music

A story about three friends—a red, yellow, and blue colored pencil—and a quarrelsome black pencil stub whose mischief causes frustration for the other...

Such Stories

Such Stories

1973

Music

About the adventures of three funny little men.

Üks helin mul helises rinna sees

Üks helin mul helises rinna sees

1972

Music

Three lyrical short stories: about locksmith Toomas, captain Hermann and gardener Ferdinand. Three different areas of life and fate, but a common long...

Summer Games of Insects

Summer Games of Insects

1971

Music

Athomic and Stouts

Athomic and Stouts

1970

Music

The Stouts steal Athomic in order to use it to start a war.

Athomic

Athomic

1970

Music

5.2

A Scientist-physicist created a living atom that here ran on will. Without control he brings many destructions, though follows kind intentions. But a ...

Ice State

Ice State

1970

Music

The documentary depicts Antarctica as an aesthetic phenomenon - it is a land of eternal silence and stillness; during its short summer the continent r...

The White Land of Enderby

The White Land of Enderby

1969

Music

A road movie about the vast and icy Antarctica.

Kips the Operator in the Stone Kingdom

Kips the Operator in the Stone Kingdom

1968

Music

Kips finds himself in the Stone Kingdom, where he gets acquainted with the fabulous treasures of the Stone King and learns a lot of interesting things...

Stork Chick

Stork Chick

1967

Music

Kips the Operator on a Desert Island

Kips the Operator on a Desert Island

1966

Music

Kips and the Forest Sage's helicopter breaks down in a thunderstorm, but fortunately, the distressed fall to a desert island. Kips learns which forest...

The Milkman of Mäeküla

The Milkman of Mäeküla

1965

Original Music Composer

4.8

A baron gives a poor peasant a well-paid job of a milkman but for reward he has to accept his beloved girl going to the mansion from time to time. Doe...

Mouse Hunt

Mouse Hunt

1965

Music

7.0

A band of mice steals grains from cats.

New Adventures of Kips the Operator

New Adventures of Kips the Operator

1965

Music

The Forest Sage shows Kips the operator what are the flowers and already ripened fruits of our best-known wild berries. The Forest Sage teaches to rec...

The Last Chimney-Sweep

The Last Chimney-Sweep

1964

Music

6.0

Estonian/Soviet animation short from 1964

Kips the Operator in the Land of Mushrooms

Kips the Operator in the Land of Mushrooms

1964

Music

7.0

Kips went to shoot a film in the land of mushrooms. He explores which mushrooms are edible and poisonous, as well as what is the fruit body and myceli...

Just Like That!

Just Like That!

1963

Music

An animated satire about a boss who thinks only he knows what is what and what is best.

Little Scooter

Little Scooter

1962

Music

8.0

A small scooter falls off a truck loaded with toys. After many adventures, the brave little scooter finds its way to a kindergarten, where it brings g...

From Evening Till Morning

From Evening Till Morning

1962

Music

During the German occupation of Estonia a young mother finds a Red Army soldier hiding in the hay in her barn.

Kotsuage

Kotsuage

N/A

Music

A short rumination on the volatile childhood of a man living out his last days on the eastern shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

Smoke

Smoke

N/A

Music

A woman, a man and smoke.