LULLABY FOR EMPTY ROOMS
2026, 27 min., Portugal, Russia, language - Russian; short-length experimental
Director: Natasha Lyutik
WAITING FOR THE SAVIOR
2026, 26 min., Russia, Armenia, language - Armenian; short-length documentary
Director: Stepan Grigoryan
TRANSIT
2025, 40 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary
Director: Varvara Tsvetkova
1018 MONTHS
2025, 25 min., Uzbekistan, language - Russian; short-length documentary
Director: Yana Xarasho
Russian premiere
A biographical drama woven from documentary footage, reconstructions, and recollection. Galina Alexandrovna — heroine, mother, grandmother, actress of her own fate — lives through decades in which fact and invention intertwine. More than ten years of filming, from the hot summer of 2012 to her last summer in 2025, turn a private life into a myth. A story of memory stronger than death, of love, and of a refusal to vanish.
About the director:
Yana Xarasho
Russian premiere
The early 2020s were among the hardest years in the history of independent Armenia. In 2022, businessman Gagik Tsarukyan announced the construction of the world’s tallest statue of Christ, calling it a symbol of national revival. Armenians from every corner of the country take part in the project. The people wait… They wait for the Savior.
About the director:
Stepan Grigoryan
Stepan Grigoryan completed the workshop of Alexander Markov and Maria Popritsak at the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television.
World premiere
Today we are moving out. I don’t think the dead still live here. And our children sleep forever in the rooms where they were born. Come downstairs. Let me hear, for a moment, the echo of my own steps in these empty rooms.
About the director:
Natasha Lyutik
Natasha Lyutik graduated from the Moscow International Film School and the Moscow School of New Cinema.
A documentary road movie about a hearse driver who takes the dead back to their hometowns, accompanied by their relatives, before coming back home to his own family. Only in returning to where one is loved does a person find peace.
About the director:
Varvara Tsvetkova
Varvara Tsvetkova completed Alexander Kiselev’s workshop at the Institute of Culture and Art as a film director and teacher.
