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Cinema

Ashitok Ludmila Fedorovna,
F vinsk, and Novodvinsk. The I International
the journalist, the observer rom 7th to 9th December 2017 many films
in the publishing house “Dvina” were shown in Arkhangelsk, Severod-

Film Festival of the Arctic countries took

place there. The project was supported with the presidential

grant and the Arkhangelsk Region’s governor Igor Orlov.

LET’S CONVERT ARKHANGELSK INTO “The Mermaid’s” laureates were people who serve as
THE ARCTIC CAPITAL a moral camertone that sets the tune for this new forum:
There were 52 films from Russia, China, Norway, Dmitry Pavlov from St. Petersburg, having shot a film
Sweden, Great Britain, Canada, Italy, and Georgia… You about searchers, fifteen-year-old Artem Palkin from
were able to watch fiction films, short-length movies, Perm Territory with the cartoon “Kolpaki Mountain
documentaries for free in 16 places; four of them were Legend”, and Igor Bukharin from Severoonezhsk with
demonstrated out-of-competition. It was also possible the movie “I Live in Russia”.
to meet their directors, scriptwriters, and actors. While
three juries were watching motion pictures together with YAKUTIA IS A RATING LEADER
viewers, the festival life was going on: master classes, However, to be a chronicler of contemporaneity and
lectures, the Chinese cinema, business, and educational to shoot documentaries as well as fiction films far from
programmes. We would like to present the chronicle of capitals is not easy today. It is even more difficult to
the brightest events and impressions. make the auditory watch your film. This problem
Arctic Open started in the cinema “Rus’” with the was discussed on the seminar “The Development and
cartoon “The Wonders of the Arkhangelsk Region” Commercialisation of the Regional Cinematograph”.
shot by pupils. The winners of the amateur film festival
“The Mermaid” were awarded as well. It had been being
held for seven years in Arkhangelsk and had become the
oblast’s brand being famous among filmmakers. It was
the region that generated the current festival.
- “The Mermaid” was designed to help cinema starters
study, show their works on the large screen, and find
the audience. It will continue within the frameworks
of Arctic Open. I consider this transition quite natural,
said the Festival Producer General Vladimir Loyter. The
Arkhangelsk Region being a cultural territory attracts
many people, so we would like to unite the Arctic
countries and integrate their culture as well as create the
common space with capital Arkhangelsk.

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