PROGRAMME OF THE 36TH MESSAGE TO MAN FILM FESTIVAL

Special Screenings

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

ADGIN PRRX

Arzamas. Lullaby

In Search Of The Higher Purpose

Magic Atlas

Joybubbles

Earth and Sky

Stories of Great Collections

Слънчев лъч над Париж / Sun Ray Over Paris

Unknown Text by an Unknown Author in an Unknown Language

Nostalgia for the Future

About Love

Cave of Dreams

Half-alive Half-dead Unable to Leave. Odyssey 1992

A Beautiful Era

Rare

Summer in Baden-Baden

Unfading

Сегодня у Германа 122 на 85 / Today Herman Is 122 over 85

There’s Enough Happiness for Everyone

Taimanov. The Game

I’ll Dream of You

Once Upon a Summer

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Between Photography and Cinema

La Jetée

Daguerréotypes

Reporters

Ulysse

Prélude 10 (Analysa)

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray

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Land of Precarious Living: A Retrospective of 1990s Siberian Documentary Cinema

Prayer

A Quiet Monastery

The Last Term

Obsession

Zhava

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Developing. The Leningrad School of Documentary Cinema

In 1946, the Leningrad Newsreel Studio moved into the building on Kryukov Canal and, like any Soviet studio, operated within the system of state commission. Documentarians filmed the city’s largest events and the successes of Leningrad’s industry. From time to time, though, auteur cinema also emerged inside that production machine. It was made by various people, in different decades, yet it shared a great deal: lyric humanism and a poetic sense of the everyday on one side; Aesopian language, an interest in the person inside the epoch, and an eye for the gap between the official and the human on the other. Read more

Look at the Face

Marina’s Life

Difficult Lads

Tamara Chistyakova

A Tram Runs Through the City

Our Mother Is a Hero

Summer Is Coming Soon

State Road

A Walk in the Mountains

Boogie-Woogie Every Day

It Snowed in the Morning

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Multiverse

Qurğuşun / Lead

Alice & Chita

Soleil Pâle / Pale Sun

Gazelle

Stallion y la Bola de Cristal / Stallion and a Crystal Ball

Lauchita

Because of (U)

Xin Hao Diu Shi / Signal Loss

Doghouse

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Young Russian Cinema

1018 Months

Waiting for the Savior

Disc

Calendar

Lullaby for Empty Rooms

Memory Is Me?

Portrait of A.

Signs of Fatigue

Empty Places

SMP-340

Transit

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Prompted Reality

In 1895, the Lumière workers leaving the factory did so in three takes, carefully playing themselves at the request of their director-employers. Thus, one of the earliest “pre-documentary” films in history already bore the marks of “post-documentary” practice. In the public imagination, “documentary” is still synonymous with “truthful” and “objective”, despite the fact that manipulation has always been an ontological necessity of the genre. Soon, AI-generated videos in the documentary style will become indistinguishable from real footage — making it a good time to remember that documentary filmmakers were writing prompts for reality long before AI existed. They simply called them documentary scripts. Read more

Exit From The Lumière Factory

Deserters from the Fields (Leningrad Newsreel story no. 10)

Tierra sin pan / Land Without Bread

Necrology

The Girl Chewing Gum

Three Casualties

47 Storeys

The Hollow Coin

War Pigeon

Steve Hates Fish

Illusion of Reality

Détour Ceaușescu

Nicolae

Drama Girl

Future Me

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In Search of the Transcendent

Find One Who Was Not Born of Woman That One Is Your Father

My Land

Contra la Naturaleza / Against Nature

Dashte khamoush / The Wasteland

Tikkun

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“One Eye Dry, the Other Wet”. Marking the Centenary of Herz Frank

The Salt Bread

From Centaur

Diagnosis

Ten Minutes Older

The Last Judgement

Song of Songs

Madonna. 20th Century

Flashback

Dear Juliett

After

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Panorama.doc

Kim Novak’s Vertigo

Un film fatto per Bene / Bravo Bene!

Yo, Love Is the Rebellious Bird

Broken English

Secret Mall Apartment

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Cinema+

Standing on the threshold of yet another technological revolution, in an age when watching films together in a cinema no longer seems the only option — or even the main one — we decided to look back and mark the centenary of two outstanding films made on the eve of one of the last century’s major technical turns: the coming of sound. Read more

Faust

Kurutta Ippêji / A Page of Madness

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