How I Ended This Summer

Screened with English subtitles.

Ohjaaja on paikalla näytöksessä, elokuvan jälkeen keskustelua.

Discussion after the film with the director, Alexei Popogrebsky. Discussion led by Vlad Strukov.

Napaseudun sääasema autiolla saarella Jäämerellä. Sergei, kokenut meteorologi ja äskettäin valmistunut kollega Pavel viettävät kuukausia täydellisessä eristyksessä tutkimusasemalla, joka ennen oli strateginen paikka. Pavel saa tärkeän radioviestin ja yrittää löytää oikean hetken kertoa Sergeille, kun pelko, valhe ja epäilyt alkavat myrkyttää ilmapiiriä ... —Koktebel Film Company

A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere... —Koktebel Film Company

ALEXEI POPOGREBSKY is a Moscow-based award-winning writer and director. He is currently the Head of Directing Department at Moscow Film School, the leading private film school in Russia. With formal training in psychology (Universities of Moscow and Wisconsin), he got involved in filmmaking in the 1990s. Together with Boris Khlebnikov, he directed his first feature film KOKTEBEL (2003). It scored a hat-trick by screening in the official selection at Berlin, Cannes and Toronto, as well as Moscow and Karlovy Vary. His solo effort as writer/director SIMPLE THINGS (2007) swept all top accolades in Sochi and Angers, and was named Best Screenplay at Russian Academy Awards. HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER (2010), set and shot on a polar station in the Russian Arctic, won two Silver Bears in Berlin, Best Film Award in London and Russian Film Academy Awards. Alexei Popogrebsky has also directed 3D films and television series, as well as a number of short films. He has served as a jury member at Sundance, London, Karlovy Vary and Pusan film festivals.

Tilaisuuden järjestää Tampere Research Centre for Russian and Chinese Media (TaRC), ja se on osa sen ensimmäistä kansainvälistä mestariluokkaviikkoa Media and the Arctic, 26.–30.11.2018. Lisätietoja: https://research.uta.fi/tarc/

The event is organized by Tampere Research Centre for Russian and Chinese Media (TaRC), and it is part of its first international Master Class week Media and the Arctic, 26–30 November, 2018. More information: https://research.uta.fi/tarc/