The film with Mark Eidelstein in a polar village took the Grand Prix of the Northern character

The debut feature film directed by Anton Mamykin “Space falls asleep” received the Grand Prix of the XVIII International Film Festival “Northern Character”, which was held in Murmansk. This was reported by the organizers of the festival.

The film tells about the St. Petersburg student Pasha, played by Mark Eidelstein. The hero returns to his native village of Shoyna in the Arctic, where the houses gradually go under the sand.

The jury, chaired by director Ivan Tverdovsky, selected the winners from a record 420 entries from 11 countries.

Other winners include the feature film Seven Days of Happiness by Nikita Davydov, the short film Equation by Vladislav Gorenko and the series Cold by Alexei Kazakov. In the documentary categories, the best were Olga Averkieva’s “Where I Will Go” and Daria Gushan’s “My Mother’s House”. The best animated film was recognized as “Giving happiness” by directors Ozerina and Sokolov.

During the festival week, the audience saw more than 100 works by Russian and foreign filmmakers.

Earlier, “MK in Murmansk” said that in Murmansk named the winners of the film competition “In the world lens – the Arctic”.