- year : 2022
- country : Russia
- timing : 96:56'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Andrey Karasov
written by Andrey Karasov, Alexey Tyurikov
produced by Andrey Karasov, Alexey Tyurikov, Oksana Reznik, Andrey Koenig, Sergey Shcheglov, Inessa Yurchenko, Galina Milova, Vladislav Pasternak
DoPs Maxim Efros, Alexander Nosovsky
music by Maxim Koshevarov
sound by Sergey Ekimov
editor Vitaly Vinogradov
production designer Elena Komissarova, Timofey Trefilov
cast: Matvey Pavlov, David Litovchenko, Alisa Grebenshchikova, Anna Nakhapetova, Inna Churikova, Elena Yakovleva, Yuri Nazarov, Ivan Kokorin, Oleg Almazov, Olga Khokhlova, Olga Sidorova
production company: NORD FILM
Gabelkin and Nikita, two little boys from a northern Russian village, never meet, and their lives appear to move in opposite directions. Gabelkin lives with his alcoholic mother, while Nikita is one of the many at a local orphanage. Gabelkin's teacher struggles with the fact that she can't have any children of her own. She'd like to adopt him, but can't, and does all she can to help. Nikita believes his mother is a woman from a photograph he found on the street.
- Spirit of Fire International Debut Film Festival (2022, Russia, Khanty-Mansiysk)
- Trans-Baikal International Film Festival, Audience Award (2022, Russia, Chita)
- Sol International Film Festival, Best Screenplay, Audience Award (2022, Spain, Torrevieja)
- Shukshin International Film Festival, Special Prize of the Governor of the Altai Territory (2022, Russia, Barnaul)
- Ariano International Film Festival (2022, Italy, Ariano Irpino)
- New Open Film Festival "Volgograd Torch", Special Jury Prize for Acting ensemble (2022, Russia, Volgograd)
- International Festival of Films and TV Films of Spiritual and Moral Content "Saint Vladimir" (2022, Russia, Sevastopol)
- Russian Educational Film Festival "Growing Up Together" (Vsrosleem vmeste) (2022, Russia, Chelyabinsk)
- Russian Film Festival "Six Premieres" (2022, Turkey, Antalya)
- Nevsky Blagovest International Film Festival (2022, Russia, Saint Petersburg)
- Chernorechye Fest Russian Film Festival, Audience Award (2023, Russia, Dzerzhinsk)
- Russian Festival of Modern and Actual Cinema “Alafeiskaya Gora” (2023, Russia, Tobolsk)
- Festival of Modern Cinema (2023, Belgorod, Stary Oskol, Gubkin)
- International Children's Rights Film Festival (2023, Türkiye, Bursa)
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Andrey Karasov was born on 23.04.1974 in Arkhangelsk, Russia. In 1996 graduated from the Arkhangelsk Regional College of Culture and Arts. In 2000 graduated from the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors as a film director.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 - "Mint Gingerbread", full - length film \ debut