Arvo Pärt

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Tras sufrir una tragedia personal, Harper se retira sola a la hermosa campiña inglesa con la esperanza de encontrar un lugar para cerrar sus heridas. Pero alguien o algo de os bosques que la rodean parece estar acechándola. Lo que comienza como un temor latente se convierte en una auténtica pesadilla, habitada por sus recuerdos y miedos más oscuros.

'Uno no piensa que se vaya a morir; y con la ELA sabes que te vas a morir y que va a ser más pronto que tarde. Tienes muy presente, muy presente, que hay que aprovechar'. David Riaño, investigador del CSIC diagnosticado con Esclerosis Lateral Amiotrófica, enfermedad degenerativa que afecta a las neuronas motoras, quiere cumplir su sueño de recorrer Europa del Este y bañarse en sus lagos. Adaptando una furgoneta para vivir en ella, y con la ayuda de sus cuidadores Mbake, un taxista senegalés y Rubén, un tuno de Alcalá de Henares; David intentará dar sentido a su enfermedad haciendo lo que siempre le ha gustado hacer: viajar y flotar en el agua.

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 throughout her entire life.

Para Billie y Nico, la vida con su padre es una montaña rusa de alegría e inquietud. Cuando está en las garras del alcohol, las lágrimas fluyen y su aparentemente idílica vida familiar se derrumba. Su madre, en su mayoría ausente e irresponsable, tampoco es de mucha ayuda. Pero su amistad con Malik, un chico de la edad de Billie, los libera de sus grilletes. Juntos se embarcan en un viaje lleno de intensos momentos de libertad. El colorido y emotivo mundo de los tres jóvenes está representado en imágenes caleidoscópicas en blanco y negro, lo que abre espacio para sus propias nociones de la infancia. El cuento de Alexandre Rockwell retrata un profundo sentido de solidaridad y un profundo amor: por el cine y Billie Holiday, y también por el riesgo y la aventura.

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.

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.

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 heaven. This is the last station on earth for old people that called “clients”. While they’re waiting for the end of their lives, prisoned in a desolate nursing home and their old-dying body, they are fighting for the freedom of their soul, the only place they can feel young and alive. A fight between light and darkness, suffering and acceptance, life and death.

Jacques Mayano, un periodista francés que ha vivido una experiencia traumática, es reclutado por el Vaticano para formar parte de un grupo de trabajo que debe investigar la veracidad de una aparición sobrenatural supuestamente ocurrida en un pequeño pueblo francés.

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 filming, only 22 of these women were still alive to tell their story. Through their own personal histories and perspectives, they tell a tale that should never be forgotten to generations unaware of the brutalization that occurred.

Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary playwright William Shakespeare's works that reveals a map leading to the location of certain treasures. British Shakespearean scholar Robert Crumpton embarks on a mission to prove he is spectacularly wrong. (A remake of “Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth,” including new discoveries.)

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 anymore. From that day their mutual lives begin. While he is actually smarter and stronger than his simian companion, Popi capitulates to every one of Huhuu’s whims in a show of obedience and subservience. Huhuu meanwhile becomes a symbol of licentiousness and tomfoolery. The film is based on the short story "Popi and Huhuu" by Estonian author Friedebert Tuglas.

Maestro, un largometraje, es una exploración del proceso artístico a través de los ojos del director Paavo Jarvi, ganador de varios premios Grammy. Viaja por el mundo con uno de los nombres más reconocidos de la industria y descubre un lado de la música clásica que pocos han visto. Jarvi, quien se desempeña como director musical de la Orchestre de Paris, nos lleva en un viaje creativo rico en cultura e historia. Las entrevistas y la partitura original de una variedad de los mejores talentos musicales de la actualidad completan una película apasionante que nos recuerda que lo que llamamos música clásica fue una vez la revolución original en la historia de la música.

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 a recluse, which is attributed to him again and again: Arvo Part. In The Lost Paradise, we follow him over a period of one year in his native Estonia, to Japan and the Vatican. The documentary is framed by the stage production of Adam's Passion, a music theater piece based on the Biblical story of the fall of Adam featuring three key works by Arvo Part. The world-renowned director Robert Wilson has brought this work to the stage in a former submarine factory in Tallinn. Tracing their creative process, the film offers rare and personal insights into the worlds of two of the most fascinating personalities in the international arts and music scene.

Adam’s Passion is the moving first collaboration between two “masters of slow motion who harmonize perfectly with each other” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). In the spectacular setting of a former submarine factory, American director and universal artist Robert Wilson creates a poetic visual world in which the mystical musical language of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt can cast its meditative spell. Three of Pärt’s major works – Adam’s Lament, Tabula rasa, and Miserere, as well as Sequentia, a new work composed especially for this production – are brought together here using light, space, and movement to create a tightly-woven Gesamtkunstwerk in which the artistic visions of these two great artists mirror each other.

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

Leonardo es un adolescente ciego en búsqueda de su independencia. Su vida cotidiana, la relación con su mejor amiga Giovana, y la forma en que ve el mundo cambian por completo con la llegada de Gabriel, el cual aflorará un sentimiento hasta ahora desconocido en él. Película secuela del cortometraje "Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho".

La trama de la película gira en torno a un joven llamado Tim Lake. El protagonista y su familia tienen el curioso don de poder viajar a través del tiempo. Al descubrir esta cualidad, Tim empieza a beneficiarse de ello para cambiar diferentes aspectos de su vida. Se enamora de una chica, Mary, a la que conoce tras transladarse a vivir a Londres por motivos de trabajo. Su historia de amor se verá beneficiada gracias al don de Tim, sin embargo, el protagonista no tardará en darse cuenta de que su habilidad no es capaz de ampararle en algunos problemas y cuestiones familiares.

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 seniors, wish to visit the lands of their childhood in Siberia. They have experienced the cold and famine and have lost their families there, but it was their only childhood, with sun and snow, friends and people who helped them survive. What is it like there now? Does anyone remember them there?

Sarah Moss es una trabajadora brillante que recibe una misión de una poderosa corporación: infiltrarse en un grupo anarquista de ecologistas radicales que está empezando a poner nerviosas a algunas empresas con sus ataques. Los problemas comienzan cuando Sarah intima demasiado con el líder de la banda que se enamora de ella, y que previamente había mantenido un romance con una joven del grupo.

In January 2011, Latvia commemorated the 20th anniversary of the tragic events that occurred in January 1991. Film producer Andris Slapiņš was killed, and cameraman Gvido Zvaigzne was fatally injured on the night of January 20th and died in hospital two weeks later. He was a young man whose talent had not yet fully flourished. His story, however, contains elements that make it not only possible to demonstrate his personal tragedy, but also the problematic existence of a young and creative person during an era when everything was crumbling around him. Destiny kept Gvido Zvaigzne from finishing his route, but the events and values of his life represent a model of his generation’s efforts.

En el camino a través de un mundo de sonidos y ruidos, con Manfred Eicher, el destacado descubridor y mediador de la música contemporánea y fundador del sello musical ECM. En este viaje nos encontramos con músicos y compositores, pero también con personas y lugares que están conectados con él y entre ellos. Nos encontramos con historias, paisajes, ciudades, disputas y abrazos, tranquilidad, ritmo agitado, trabajo, dudas, alegría, pasión.

En el camino a través de un mundo de sonidos y ruidos, con Manfred Eicher, el destacado descubridor y mediador de la música contemporánea y fundador del sello musical ECM. En este viaje nos encontramos con músicos y compositores, pero también con personas y lugares que están conectados con él y entre ellos. Nos encontramos con historias, paisajes, ciudades, disputas y abrazos, tranquilidad, ritmo agitado, trabajo, dudas, alegría, pasión.

Alex y su mujer Vera emprenden con sus dos hijos un destierro voluntario que pronto se convertirá en una pesadilla. Se trata de un viaje interior del paraíso al infierno, en el que cada uno evoluciona de manera diferente, alejándose todos cada vez más del ideal familiar. Todo comienza a tambalearse con la llegada de Mark, el hermano de Alex, que ha abandonado a su mujer y a sus hijos. La perniciosa influencia de Mark hace que las relaciones de Alex con su familia sean cada vez más frías y distantes; así, cuando Vera le da la noticia de un nuevo embarazo, Alex la acusa de infidelidad.

Texas, principios del siglo XX. Una historia sobre la familia, la avaricia y la religión. Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) se traslada a una miserable ciudad con el propósito de hacer fortuna, pero, a medida que se va enriqueciendo, sus principios y valores desaparecen y acaba dominado por la ambición. Tras encontrar un rico yacimiento de petróleo en 1902, se convierte en un acaudalado magnate. Cuando, años después, intenta apoderarse de un nuevo yacimiento, tiene que enfrentarse al predicador Eli Sunday (Paul Dano). Adaptación de la novela de Upton Sinclair "Petróleo", escrita en 1927.

Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for 1,500 years until 2001, when the Taliban declared that all non-Islamic statues in the country be destroyed. Despite international protest, the statues were blown up. Through interwoven narratives from past and present, Frei's film sheds light on the disturbing consequences of religious fanaticism.

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

Un hombre abandona la Ciudad de México para irse al campo a preparar su muerte. Allí se aloja con una vieja viuda india en una desvencijada casa con vistas a un desolado cañón. En la inmensidad de un salvaje e imponente paisaje, se enfrenta a la infinita humanidad de la vieja viuda, y su conducta oscila entre la crueldad y el lirismo. Sus embotados sentidos se despiertan y así se renuevan su instinto vital y sus deseos sexuales.

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

Dos amigos que viajan juntos deciden abandonar la autopista y lanzarse a la aventura; pero, cuando se pierden en medio del desierto, empieza para ellos una auténtica odisea en la que sus principales enemigos serán el calor y la deshidratación.

Multipremiado documental sobre el fotoreportero norteamericano James Nachtwey, considerado uno de los mejores fotógrafos de guerra del mundo. El film relata la historia de Nachtwey al tiempo que trata los sentimientos y dilemas a los que se enfrentan todos aquellos fotógrafos y periodistas que están cubriendo conflictos bélicos. (FILMAFFINITY)

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

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 committed the crimes against them. The gang leader is the only one who has something of a normal life, living at a hotel where he is an apprentice and friends with the managers who are like surrogate parents to him. However, when the others start to attack their tormentors, Smith is drawn into the conflagaration also.

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

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 accompanying text.

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

This two-part documentary series made for regional television captures a crucial moment in Cali and Ospina's relationship with its city: a crossroads where the break with the city of youth becomes inevitable and painful. The first part, Cali plane X plane, is a counterpoint of image and sound on the destruction of architectural heritage. The second, Goodbye to Cali / Ah, Goddess Kali !, brings together the opposing testimonies of local artists who have dealt with the theme of the city and the devastators who have insisted on destroying it.

This documentary shows Arvo Pärt at home with his family and working in his study. He is interviewed/provides voiceover in Estonian/Russian with subtitled English translations. Concert rehearsals (The Hilliard Ensemble/ Western Wind Choir/Paul Hillier) (unknown Finnish choir & orchestra/Eri Klas) and a studio session (Arvo Pärt: Yamaha DX7 keyboard, Jan Garbarek: tenor saxophone & Manfred Eicher: engineer) for the unreleased recording of what is reputedly Aetos are shown. Also a few minutes of the Kremer/Grindenko/Schnittke /Sondeckis Tabula Rasa performance is shown which would lead one to think that there is a complete video recording of that as well as the WDR Radio recording used for the ECM release. The tone of the documentary alternates from serious interviews/work to humorous scenes of Pärt clowning around and German "man on the street" interviews with people being asked "Who is Arvo Pärt?". Overall, a fascinating view into Pärt's work and lifestyle. - Alan Teder

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

Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckerman returns to the European Jewish communities which inspired her childhood stories.

El piloto espacial Pirxa es contratado para evaluar si unos robots son aptos para trabajar en vuelos por la galaxia. Cuando una misión acaba en tragedia, Pirxa será severamente examinado para decidir si fue responsable de la muerte de su tripulación. Un clásico de culto de la ciencia ficción, basado en una historia de Stanislaw Lem y con música de Arvo Pärt.

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

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-year-old man is lonely and has to go to a retirement home. Director Leida Laius' documentary tells a story about the life and work of the old actor as well as contemplates on the true values of life, old man's connections to the present and the past. The thoughts of the wise old man are enchanting with their simplicity and warmth.

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 transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.

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 transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.

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. Kati conjures up the sun and floats above the fields of flowers and the whole universe. There is no borderline between reality and the magic world. Is it possible to play the same game also at her home in the city?

Estonian/Soviet animation short from 1974

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 continuation of life.

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 November 1968 until May 1969.

Charming stop motion nuclear cautionary tale by Estonian animator Elbert Tuganov about a scientist and a little atom who has adventures outside of the lab.

A road movie about the vast and icy Antarctica.

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. Does the wealth outweigh the honor and conscience?

A band of mice steals grains from cats.

Estonian/Soviet animation short from 1964

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

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