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Cinema

The shot from the short-length film "Not for the River". The shot from the movie "24 snowdrifts".

The shot from the film "Karenina and I". The shot from the film “As Vitka the Garlic was bringing Lekha the Pivot into the Disabled Persons Home”.

– The regional cinema is not anything of an amateur films. A net of cinema clubs and social cinema theatres
character, made with a photo camera and edited somehow, in the region popularises these motion pictures. The
considered Secretary of the Russian Cinematographers’ university got a license for media-education. President
Union Philip Abryutin. These are the films that win top of the Non-fiction Films Guild (St. Petersburg) Viktor
prizes on prestigious festivals, outperformed many federal Skubey reminded about the cinema accessibility that had
projects under commercial rates, that is they become been told about even by Lenin, and, as a paradox, about
driving force for the regional economy. Thus Yakutia’s their inaccessibility of documentaries on TV. He sees the
movie “Karol. The Invisible Beauty” with the budget of way out in the development of the regional clubs net from
one million rubles raised 11 million in the film service of 10 to 150 people in each… that is the film service. Each
the Sakha Republic. In a couple of years, regional directors film should be followed with a discussion and meetings
will give an impetus to the development of the whole with filmmakers. This form with the active audience
domestic cinema. participation creates a positive atmosphere in the society.
In the regional rating, Yakutia is surely a leader. Its - Due to the festival I saw the possibility to promote
government allocates five million per year for filmmaking. the regional cinema art, noted President of the company
There are five studios and a profitable movie is shot almost “Bronitsky and Associates” Gordon Bronitsky.
monthly. The second place is for Krasnoyarsk Territory, the - I am amazed by the power of the films presented in
third one is for the Arkhangelsk Region. A breakthrough Arkhangelsk.
has occurred for the last two years in Karelia’s cinema.
Chairperson of Karelia’s Cinematographers’ Union, NORWAY’S KARENINA
director Alexey Babenko shared the experience: Let us rate the seen on the festival and compare results
“You merely need to make a good film with a good topic with the jury assessment. As for me, the most powerful
for the success, many movies, in order to understand what impression from the whole festival was made with the film
is desirable for viewers and what themes are important for “Karenina and Me” shown on “The Cinema Nights”. The
them. We do so”. Italian Tommazo Mottola had shot this movie about his
wife G²rild Mauseth who is a star of the Norwegian theatre.
A FILM CLUB NOW! The actress playing the role of the Russian literature icon
Perm’s initiatives are interesting. Chairperson of the got an offer to act this part in a performance that will be
jury in the nomination “Documentaries” of Arctic Open, staged in Vladivostok but Anna has to speak Russian
President of the festival “Flaertiana” Pavel Pechenkin there. She travels across Solovki, St. Petersburg, Yasnaya
changed the city into the capital of documentaries. The Polyana, stations on the way, swims in cold Baikal, meets,
youth considers to be a mauvais ton not visiting and not and talks… She studies Russian, trying to understand
watching during the festival; students write reviews on Karenina de novo but has discovered herself, her fate

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