Movies: Arvo Pärt

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

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 phenomenon the man is....

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

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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 home in the forests of Estonia and generates therewith - perhaps involuntarily - the impression of ...

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 gifts to use for survival – some are suitable for cooking, others become material for clothes and b...

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....

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 reunite with him. The film is told through the eyes of the fourteen year old boy, his rankled look wit...

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

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 recognize berries and distinguish poisonous from edible ones. However, in the end, the berries go into ...

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

The documentary "Childhood Land Siberia" continues the series of films about the deportations to Siberia, commited by the Soviet Union as part of an ethnic cleansing in its occupied lands in 1941. Some of the surviving children who were deported, now...

A Scientist-physicist created a living atom that here ran on will. Without control he brings many destructions, though follows kind intentions. But a scientist eventually compels him to work on a benefit to the people....

The documentary depicts Antarctica as an aesthetic phenomenon - it is a land of eternal silence and stillness; during its short summer the continent reveals its most beautiful treasures. Filmed during the 13th Soviet Antarctic expedition from Novembe...

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 visit, the couple talk about future plans and deep differences emerge. Five months later, when John r...

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....

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 with his religious beliefs. Both he and his music defy classification, and he is determined to prese...

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

Estonian/Soviet animation short from 1964...