XV
INTERNATIONAL FILM & TV FESTIVAL
NOTHERN CHARACTER
Russia, Murmansk, 13-19 november 2023
Video presentation
Opening film of the festival
The fog
16 november | Thursday
18:00
MIRAGE CINEMA, HALL 5 (MURMANSK MALL, Murmansk, Lenina avenue, 32)
Free entry
Production: Vstrecha Studio, Moscow, Russia. 2023
Director: Natalia Gugueva

88 min. (12+)

Natalia Gugueva, the famous documentary filmmaker, has filmed her debut feature film The Fog in Murmansk region and is going to present it at the festival this year.


The plot is based on the complicated relations of a man and a woman, parents and a child. This is a story about two meteorologists who suddenly disappeared from a remote arctic island. Olga Krasko and Evgeny Kharitonov are starring in their roles. A young journalist comes to the island after their mystic disappearance and starts her investigation.


The film was shot in Murmansk and Teriberka, on the Barents Sea shores. at the oldest functioning weather station. The film is expected to be shown in cinemas this year.


According to Natalia Gugueva the idea for this film appeared four years ago at the Northern Character Film Festival when she participated in the festival in Murmansk with some films about air force pilots.


The government of Murmansk region supported the production of this film through the rebate program.

Production: Vstrecha Studio, Moscow, Russia. 2023 / 12+
Director: Natalia Gugueva

88 min. (12+)

Natalia Gugueva, the famous documentary filmmaker, has filmed her debut feature film The Fog in Murmansk region and is going to present it at the festival this year.


The plot is based on the complicated relations of a man and a woman, parents and a child. This is a story about two meteorologists who suddenly disappeared from a remote arctic island. Olga Krasko and Evgeny Kharitonov are starring in their roles. A young journalist comes to the island after their mystic disappearance and starts her investigation.


The film was shot in Murmansk and Teriberka, on the Barents Sea shores. at the oldest functioning weather station. The film is expected to be shown in cinemas this year.


According to Natalia Gugueva the idea for this film appeared four years ago at the Northern Character Film Festival when she participated in the festival in Murmansk with some films about air force pilots.


The government of Murmansk region supported the production of this film through the rebate program


Closing film of the festival
Three minutes of silence
18 november | Saturday
14:00
MIRAGE CINEMA, HALL 5 (MURMANSK MALL, Murmansk, Lenina avenue, 32)
Free entry
Production: STV Filmcompany, Globus Film Company, Moscow, Russia, 2023
Director: Boris Khlebnikov

116 min. (16+)
This film is based on a novel by Georgy Vladimov, Three Minutes of Silence. Snegir fishing vessel is a floating home for a band of sea tramps. All of them are different, but they have something in common - the desire to get a richer haul, earn more money and come back ashore alive.

Two new guys, Nikita and Maksim, become a part of this world. Icy waves, hard work and a company of sulku seamen - this is not the way they imagined their summer cruise. Video for the blog will have to wait and you can keep your discontent to yourself. The sea is changing and the storm is not the main challenge that awaits the ship’s crew.

Boris Khlebnikov: “Snegir is a model of a group, any closed male group. We all remember Full Metall Jacket. This is the same. Ours is just Russian.”

It took about two years to prepare this project. The script was written by the director in cooperation with Natalia Meshaninova. They moved the action time of the film from the 1960’s to the present day.
Production: STV Filmcompany, Globus Film Company, Moscow, Russia, 2023
Director: Boris Khlebnikov

116 min. (16+)

This film is based on a novel by Georgy Vladimov, Three Minutes of Silence. Snegir fishing vessel is a floating home for a band of sea tramps. All of them are different, but they have something in common - the desire to get a richer haul, earn more money and come back ashore alive.

Two new guys, Nikita and Maksim, become a part of this world. Icy waves, hard work and a company of sulku seamen - this is not the way they imagined their summer cruise. Video for the blog will have to wait and you can keep your discontent to yourself. The sea is changing and the storm is not the main challenge that awaits the ship’s crew.

Boris Khlebnikov: “Snegir is a model of a group, any closed male group. We all remember Full Metall Jacket. This is the same. Ours is just Russian.”

It took about two years to prepare this project. The script was written by the director in cooperation with Natalia Meshaninova. They moved the action time of the film from the 1960’s to the present day.


Premiere
Polyarniy-3 TV-show

17 november | Friday
21:00
MIRAGE CINEMA, HALL 5 (MURMANSK MALL, Murmansk, Lenina avenue, 32)
Free entry
Production: «1-2-3 Production» Film Company, Moscow, Russia, 2023

Two episodes – 50 min. (16+)
17th of November Northern Character Film Festival will host the premiere of the first two episodes of Season 3 of Polyarniy TV-show that was filmed in the Murmansk region.
People of Murmansk will be the first in Russia to see the beginning of this season, since its official start on TNT channel is scheduled for 20.00 November 20.

You can watch the first and second episodes of Polyarniy at Mirage Cinema (Murmansk Mall) on November 17 at 21.00, hall 5.

The first two seasons of 1-2-3 Production Film Company project became hits on TNT channel. In the third season Mikhail Porechenkov will return as Vitya Gromov and will continue to restore order in a small snowy town where everyone lives according to special polar rules.

The project was filmed in the Murmansk region so Polyarniy 3 can boast of a rich cast from Murmansk: Ekaterina Efremova, Ilya Sirin, Dmitry Paster, Ksenia Mary, Ekaterina Chenchikova, Larisa Beloded, Alexander Sunyaev, Denis Dmitriev, Marina Volkodav.

The filming took place in March-April 2023 in Kirovsk, Apatity and Polyarnye Zori.
TNT representatives and actors will arrive in Murmansk for the premiere.
Production: «1-2-3 Production» Film Company, Moscow, Russia, 2023

Two episodes – 50 min. (16+)

17th of November Northern Character Film Festival will host the premiere of the first two episodes of Season 3 of Polyarniy TV-show that was filmed in the Murmansk region.
People of Murmansk will be the first in Russia to see the beginning of this season, since its official start on TNT channel is scheduled for 20.00 November 20.

You can watch the first and second episodes of Polyarniy at Mirage Cinema (Murmansk Mall) on November 17 at 21.00, hall 5.

The first two seasons of 1-2-3 Production Film Company project became hits on TNT channel. In the third season Mikhail Porechenkov will return as Vitya Gromov and will continue to restore order in a small snowy town where everyone lives according to special polar rules.

The project was filmed in the Murmansk region so Polyarniy 3 can boast of a rich cast from Murmansk: Ekaterina Efremova, Ilya Sirin, Dmitry Paster, Ksenia Mary, Ekaterina Chenchikova, Larisa Beloded, Alexander Sunyaev, Denis Dmitriev, Marina Volkodav.

The filming took place in March-April 2023 in Kirovsk, Apatity and Polyarnye Zori.

TNT representatives and actors will arrive in Murmansk for the premiere.


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    Festival partners
    The organizer is the independent non-commercial organization Production Center NORTHERN CHARACTER
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