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Second Nordic Film Festival in Kaliningrad! 

Fifteen critically acclaimed films from the five Nordic countries. The Second Nordic Film Festival in Kaliningrad will be arranged between the 27th of February and the 5th of March and will broaden the target audience. This year not only adults will manage to plunge into beautiful and mysterious world of Nordic cinematograph, there is also quite interesting program for children.   

Films from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland will be shown in the cinema theatre Zarya during the festival. The films, picked by the national film institutes, represent Nordic cinematography at its best.
- Our goal is to develop knowledge and understanding of Nordic cinematography amongst the Kaliningrad audience. Nordic cinematography has long traditions and plays a very important part of Nordic culture, - underlines Arne Grove, Director of the Information office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Kaliningrad. The festival in 2008 was a success so it was decided to arrange it yearly in the future.
Icelandic film Astropia will open the festival on the 27th of February. This year Iceland has a Presidency in the Nordic Council of Ministers, so this country will be the first. Young audience will also have a chance to see Icelandic film for children No Network and their famous animation Anna and the Moods. There will be a meeting with the Swedish Carlson as well.
Swedish hit Let the Right One In of director Tomas Alfredsson, awarded with the number of significant prizes, will round up the festival on the 5th of March.
The Nordic Film Festival is organized by the Information office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Kaliningrad in cooperation with the Consulate General of Sweden in Kaliningrad, the cinema theatre Zarya, H.C.Andersen Kaliningrad Children`s Library and Gaidar Kaliningrad Children`s Library.

The venue for the film festival is the Cinema Zarya, Prospect Mira, 43, Kaliningrad, which is a member of the network of European Cinemas. http://www.europa-cinemas.org    

Contact person:
Natalya Yakovchuk, Information office of the Nordic Council of Ministers
in Kaliningrad
tel. 72 81 72
nk@norden39.ru

Tickets:
Cinema Zarja  
tel. 21 45 88

Nordic films presented in Kaliningrad

Ten critically acclaimed films from the five Nordic countries. This is the Nordic Film Festival in a nutshell. The first ever Nordic Film Festival in Kaliningrad will be arranged between the 29^th of February and the 5^th of March.


Dog nail clipper (Koirankynnen leikkaaja)
Production: Finland, 2003
Director: Marku Polonen

Two films from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland will be shown in the cinema theatre Zarya during the festival. The films, picked by the national film institutes, represent Nordic cinematography at its best.

-Our goal is to develop knowledge and understanding of Nordic cinematography amongst the Kaliningrad audience. Nordic cinematography has long traditions and plays a very important part of Nordic culture, underlines Arne Grove, Director of the Information office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Kaliningrad.

The festival, to be arranged yearly in the future, will kick off on the 29^th with the Swedish film You the Living, directed by Roy Andersson. Danish director Peter Schoenau Fogs production The Art of Crying, awarded with the Nordic Councils film prize in 2007,will round up the festival on the 5^th of March.

The Nordic Film Festival is organized by the Information office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Kaliningrad in cooperation with the Consulate General of Sweden in Kaliningrad and the cinema theatre Zarya. 

You can find more information about films and festival schedule in our brochure Nordic Film Festival .

Contact person:
Natalya Kulikova,
NCM Information Office in Kaliningrad,
nk@norden39.ru
Tel:72 81 72


Tickets and film schedules:
Movie theatre Zarya
Prospekt Mira, Kaliningrad
Tel: 21-45-88.

Edited February 25, 2009