Director Natalia Meshchaninova

Script Natalia Meshchaninova, Liubov Mulmenko, Ivan Ugarov

Camera Evgeni Tsvetkov, Ivan Mamonov

Design Olga Yurasova

Music Jacques Polyakov

Cast: Daria Savelieva, Polina Shanina, Ivan Prill, Stepan Devonin, Alexandra Makarskaya, Ksenia Radchenko, Daniil Steklov, Sergei Ovchinnikov, Maxim Stoyanov, Dmitri Kubasov, Irina Gavra

Producers Elena Stepanischeva, Zaur Bolotaev, Alexander Plotnikov, Petr Gudkov, Evgeni Semin

Production First Creative Union, Look Film

Sveta loves her boyfriend, loathes his training in the clinic and hates her rival, a prostitute whom all her friends love. Dan drives a taxi, but dreams of his own business. Alexei performs magic tricks at parties, but wants to become the richest artist in town. Sergey, Yana and Ruslana work at the factory, but they live for their musical group. It’s only a few steps to a bright future, but these steps are so difficult. It’s easier to color the present with love, alcohol and music. Thus young people spend their time everywhere on the planet – even if this point is located at the Polar circle. Who of them stays here, who has the strength to take a step towards their own future – and at what cost does that step come?

NATALIA MESHCHANINOVA

Director of fiction and documentary cinema, scriptwriter. Born in Krasnodar. Graduated from Kuban State University of Culture and Arts as television and cinema director (2005) and from the School of Documentary Cinema “Internews” (2007, class of Marina Razbezhkina). Worked as director on Krasnodar TV. Director of numerous documentaries, worked on the creation of the TV series “School” (2010). Her first full-length film “The Hope Factory” won award at the Vilnius IFF.