From 20 to 22 November, the Echoes of the 36th Message to Man International Film Festival come to Ekaterinburg. Screenings will take place at the Yeltsin Center.
Friday, 20 November
19:00, Yeltsin Center
Stay with Me a Little Longer
Dir. Stasya Khomeriki-Grankovskaya, Russia, 2026, 42 min.
Inga Balabanova remembers her son, not as a famous filmmaker but as Alyosha.
Me Too (Make Films)
Dir. Anastasia Prasolova, Russia, 2026, 5 min.
An aspiring documentary filmmaker searches for a subject for her film school entrance sketch and ends up at Aleksei Balabanov’s grave at 11 p.m.
Kidnappers
Dir. Aleksei Sukhovei, Russia, 2026, 31 min.
People land on an island to capture the calves of a prehistoric “sheep-ox”, yet they are not hunters.
Saturday, 21 November
17:00, Yeltsin Center
Mother
Dir. Elizaveta Bobyleva, Russia, 2025, 40 min.
A single day split Svetlana’s life into “before” and “after”: her husband left, and for a year and a half her elder daughter filmed the family learning to live anew.
Before the Sun
Dir. Alisa Tamarova, Russia, 2026, 35 min.
A summer camp on the Black Sea becomes a place of growing up for teenagers from an orphanage.
Maternal Dreams
Dir. Anna Shveigolts, Russia, 2026, 5 min.
A film built from dreams about pregnancy and motherhood that different women sent to the director.
19:00, Yeltsin Center
Hideaway
Dir. Nikita Kartsev, Russia, 2026, 82 min.
The city as a space where every act of creation is shadowed by destruction, and the filmmaker’s own anxiety as he awaits the birth of his son.
Sunday, 22 November
16:00, Yeltsin Center
Chuuraa
Dir. Evgenia Arbugaeva, UK, 2026, 18 min.
A Yakut palaeontologist descends into the depths of thawing permafrost in search of an ancient creature: a journey between mythology and science.
City of Owls
Dir. Zhenia Kazankina, Germany, Russia, 2026, 13 min.
On her last evening before leaving, Vera tells her little sister a bedtime story about a city of eternal night to hide the real reason they are parting.
The Wind Blows Wherever It Wants
Dir. Ivan Boiko, Georgia, 2025, 69 min.
Shepherds of Tusheti drive thousands of sheep along an ancient route between the Caucasus peaks and the Vashlovani steppes, where nomadic tradition meets the modern world.
19:00, Yeltsin Center
Arina
Dir. Ivan Druzhinin, Russia, 2026, 127 min.
The story of an artist seeking peace of mind when war knocks on her door.