18.10.2025 at 13:30. Special screening: Message To Man | Litvyakov to Man, Dom Kinp, Big Hall

Time and place

Saturday, 18 October 2025 at 13:30

Dom Kino Cinema Center – Big Hall: Karavannaya Street, 12

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Description

MESSAGE TO MAN

1989, СССР, 45 min., language – Russian, documentary, full-length
Director: Irina Kalinina

LITVYAKOV TO MAN

2018, Russia, 30 min., col., o.v. – Russian, shorty-length, documentary
Director: Roman Pomerantsev

Message To Man

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Irina Kalinina

Year: 1989

Country: USSR

Description

In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its events, guests and participants, such as the American director Leo Hurwitz, the Latvian director Ivars Seleckis, and the ballerina Natalya Makarova, among others. It also shows the “engine room” of the festival: the work of the main office and the PROKKa professional cinematographers’ club, guests being greeted and seen off.

Litvyakov to Man

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Roman Pomerantsev

Operator: Ivan Miklin, Aleksandr Khromov

Screenwriter: Denis Nazarov

Year: 2018

Country: Russia

Duration: 30 min.

Description

In the camera’s lens is Mikhail Litvyakov, the director of the Leningrad Studio of Documentary Films and the founded of the Message to Man Film Festival. It is a very personal interview. In some sense, it is his own message. It is a poetic discourse on the Leningrad Documentary Wave, on the famous festival, and on you and me, and what remains the same in this world.