The successful screening series of the Estonian Institute presenting the numerous links between Arvo Pärt’s music and cinema is to be continued in 2016. Pärt’s music inspired numerous film directors from Jean-Luc Godard through Tom Tykwer.

THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
(Les Invasions barbares)
Canadian-French comedy-drama, 2003, 99 min.
directed by Denys Arcand

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who asks their estranged son Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards in 2004

Works of Arvo Pärt used in the soundtrack:

Ein Wallfahrtslied, Psalom, Trisaigon

The screening will be introduced by film- and music critic László Kolozsi (in Hungarian).