We continue to note in our notebooks what not to miss at the festival "Message to Man".

This year, the non-competition program of the festival "Message to Man" turned out to be particularly rich.

Panorama.doc Program

"Panorama.doc was conceived as a cross-section of current documentary filmmaking, an attempt to capture the small changes and shifts occurring in this cinematic art form, and to hear what authors are talking about today. This year's program includes films that participated in and won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, IDFA, and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival,"

● "Confessions of a Good Samaritan," directed by Penny Lane. USA, 2023.

● "Paradise," directed by Alexander Abaturov. France, Switzerland, 2022.

● "Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano," directed by Cyril Aris. Lebanon, Germany, 2023.

● "The Prisoner of Wakhan," directed by Janyl Jusupjan. Kyrgyzstan, France, 2023.

Cinema of Hyperreality Program

The most interesting fiction films of the year, expanding the intellectual space at the core of which remains documentary cinema.

"This program was conceived by the selection committee of the International Competition. We encountered so many excellent films that the competition simply could not accommodate them, but losing such wonderful cinema would have been a crime. That's how the idea of the non-competition short and medium-length program 'Multiverse' came about. It is divided into four micro-universes, i.e., four sessions: Time Travel, 'Day,' 'Night,' and 'Apocalypse Now,'"

Let's Draw – We'll Live Program

● "Airship of Unknown Direction," directed by Alexandra Galitskova. Russia, 2018.

● "Cabaret," directed by Marianna Grigorova. Russia, 2021.

● "The Company," directed by Rustam Kornaushkin. Russia, 2016.

● "Little Boat," directed by Anastasia Makhina. Russia, 2018.

● "Red Black," directed by Ekaterina Kudoyarova. Russia, 2017.

● "Like," directed by Anastasia Dymnova. Russia, 2020.

● "Mazai is Not Noah!," directed by Tatyana Chernilevskaya. Russia, 2018.

● "The Boy and the Fox," directed by Svetlana Tugaibey. Russia, 2012.

● "Maruska," directed by Lyudmila Smolyar. Russia, 2021.

● "The Mask," directed by Daria Mantereva. Russia, 2021.

● "Frozen Wolves," directed by Danil Lavrikov. Russia, 2021.

● "Professionals," directed by Kaurbek Baroev. Russia, 2023.

● "The Journey," directed by Egor Gornostaev. Russia, 2018.

● "Remora," directed by Anna Bulakhova. Russia, 2023.

● "The Bundle," directed by Zinaida Shcherbatova. Russia, 2021.

Russian Young. Extended Present Program

● "Aiyy Kuo," directed by Ayaal Adamov. Russia, 2023.

● "Nothing Disturbed Me in My Sleep," directed by Gennady Lebedev. Russia, 2023.

● "Outstanding Days," directed by Artur Grigoriev. Russia, 2023.

● "Winter in Summer," directed by Sofia Kotova. Russia, 2023.

● "Caucasus," directed by Elina Belikova, Lika Yatkovskaya. Russia, 2023.

● "Crowns Stir Up the Wind," directed by Anton Ermolin. Russia, 2021.

● "My Good Star," directed by Denis Bazovoy. Russia, 2023.

● "Ambulance," directed by Mikhail Nilov. Russia, 2023.

● "Tonok47," directed by Egor Lebedev. Russia, 2022.

● "Wanna Hug?," directed by Anastasia Kuzina. Russia, 2022.

● "Fur Coat," directed by Evgeny Vedrov. Russia, 2023.

Traditionally, current student cinema at the Festival is represented by the largest film schools in Russia: VGIK and SPbGIKiT:

● "Anomaly," directed by Alexandra Ozeretskaya. Fiction. Russia, 2022, VGIK

● "Bebia, Babua, Anzorik, Me and Mom," directed by Raul Geidarov. Fiction. Russia, 2022, VGIK

● "Voices," directed by Ivan Voroshilov. Experimental. Russia, 2022, VGIK

● "Nowhere, Nowhere, and No Way," directed by Ivana Solovey. Documentary. Russia, 2022, VGIK

● "The Carrier," directed by Kristina Lebedeva. Fiction. Russia, 2022, VGIK

● "Dog-Truth," directed by Maria Ivanova. Fiction. Russia, 2022, VGIK

● "Macula," directed by Sasha Kozma. Russia, 2023, SPbGIKiT.

● "Väinö," directed by Vladislav Egorenkov. Russia, 2023, SPbGIKiT.

● "Child of Other Worlds," directed by Natalia Tetenkina. Russia, 2022, SPbGIKiT.

● "Heart of Baikal," directed by Arina Kosmina. Russia, 2022, SPbGIKiT.

Read more about how the festival will take place in our upcoming articles.