20.10.2026 at 18:20. National Competition 7: Outpost, Mother, It’s Time to Come Home, Avrora, Small Hall

Time and place

Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:20

Aurora Cinema Centre – Small Hall: Nevsky prospect, 60

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Description

OUTPOST

2025, 28 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary

Director: Artem Danilov

MOTHER

2025, 40 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary

Director: Elizaveta Bobyleva

IT’S TIME TO COME HOME

2026, 25 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary

Director: Maria Bondarenko

It’s Time to Come Home

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Maria Bondarenko

Operator: Nikita Abramov

Screenwriter: Maria Bondarenko

Producer: Anna Makarova

Year: 2026

Country: Russia

Duration: 25 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

World premiere

Inside a military hospital we watch the lives and fortunes of people learning to adapt to a new reality. Following a long and hard rehabilitation process, the New Year is coming, with all its festive bustle, and after that, the long-awaited discharge.

About the director:

It’s Time to Come Home

Maria Bondarenko

Filmmaker. Born and raised in St. Petersburg. In 2026 she graduated from the workshop by Alexander Markov and Maria Popritsak at the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television. While a student she made Idyll in the Painting (2024) and Antigen (2025). Time to Go Home is her graduation work.

Mother

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Elizaveta Bobyleva

Operator: Elizaveta Bobyleva

Screenwriter: Elizaveta Bobyleva

Producer: Ekaterina Cherepanova, Rinat Gafarov

Year: 2025

Country: Russia

Duration: 40 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

World premiere

A single day was enough to split Svetlana’s life into “before” and “after.” Her husband left, leaving her to face a new reality on her own. For a year and a half, the camera was in the hands of her eldest daughter. This candid documentary chronicle tells the story of how a woman and her loved ones learn to live a new life, grappling with their fears and discovering new strength.

About the director:

Mother

Elizaveta Bobyleva

Filmmaker. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Perm State National Research University with a degree in journalism in 2022. She has taken part in the documentary filmmaking laboratories ‘DocResidence’ and ‘Vidimo. In Focus,’ as well as in the ‘ProCut’ workshop in 2024. Mother is her debut film.

Outpost

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Artem Danilov

Operator: Vladimir Chernov

Screenwriter: Artem Danilov

Producer: Eva Shimova

Producer company : SPUFT

Year: 2025

Country: Russia

Duration: 28 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

Russian premiere

In the third year of the special military operation, St. Petersburg seemed, at first glance, a peaceful city untouched by the conflict. But what was in fact happening to people at the time? How did they respond and what did they do? What was the atmosphere inside this outpost of calm?

About the director:

Outpost

Artem Danilov

Director and editor. Member of the Russian Guild of Non-Fiction Film. In 2025 he graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT), non-fiction directing workshop of Pavel Medvedev and Roman Pomerantsev. He also studied at the St. Petersburg School of New Cinema in Sergei Ivanov’s editing workshop, and is now studying directing and editing with Ivanov at ‘Art Residence’. Outpost is his graduation film at SPUFT.