Night Over Parma (Mirage), 2009

A kind of digest of the films the director shot in the Komi-Permyak District from 1991 onwards. The picture is edited without dialogue or narration. From beginning to end the film is accompanied by a composition for kantele by the Finnish composer Tapio Tuomela (the Komi-Permyaks belong to the Uralic branch of the Finnic family of peoples).

Grand Prix in the «Director of the Programme or Film» nomination at the All-Russian festival «TeleProfy» (Saratov).

Selected for international festivals: Germany (Hamburg and Eberswalde), Portugal, Italy and others.

P. S. In European countries the film was shown under a different title — «Night Over Parma».

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