Lavrov: Murmansk film festival important for Arctic cooperation
The first international Arctic Polar Lights Film Festival in Murmansk last week gathered some 10 000 viewers to more than 60 showings. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov calls the event a “genuine festival of art, peace and friendship”.
- Today, when Russian and the other states in the Arctic Council actively are seeking ways to establish a partnership based on mutual respect, a festival with the best film works from Russia, Finland, Sweden, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and the U.S. Can give an extra impulse to the positive processes in the relationship between our states, Lavrov wrote in a letter to Governor of Murmansk Oblast Dmitry Dmitiyenko, the Murmansk regional administration writes on its web site.
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The Grand Prix was won by the Russian director Aleksey Popogrebsky for his film “How I Ended This Summer”, which also won a Silver Bear in the Berlin International Film Festival.
