Concerts and numerous other events around the world celebrate the 80-year-old Arvo Pärt in 2015. The works of the worldwide famous Estonian composer are accessible not only on concerts and on records, but quite often in cinemas as well. Pärt’s music inspired numerous film directors from Jean-Luc Godard through Tom Tykwer up to last year’s Oscar-winning Paolo Sorrentino. The movie series of the the Estonian Institute presents films, featuring Arvo Pärt’s music, as well as two documentaries about the composer.

The screenings will be introduced by music and film critic László Kolozsi, lecturer at MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest).

HEAVEN
(2002, 97 min., directed by Tom Tykwer)

Heaven is a 2002 thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run and The Princess and the Warrior), starring Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi. Co-screenwriter Krzysztof Kieślowski intended for it to be the first part of a trilogy (the second being Hell and the third having been slated to be titled Purgatory), but Kieślowski died before he could complete the project. Tom Tykwer's realization has a belief in fateful meetings that occur as a side effect of violence or chance, as both his above mentioned films do. Heaven contains the same sort of defiant romanticism, in which a courageous woman tries to alter her fate by sheer will power.
(Source: wikipedia)

Works of Arvo Pärt used in the soundtrack: Für Alina, Spiegel im Spiegel, Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka