PROGRAMME OF THE 35TH MESSAGE TO MAN FILM FESTIVAL (2025)

Ten: Grand Prix Through the Decades

Winning films from past editions of Message to Man

Mikhail Ratgauz speaks about the programme

The Belovs

Lion With a Grey Beard

Bread Day

Fata Morgana

My Love

Carmen Meets Borat

Dubina dva / Depth Two

Harmony

A Woman Captured

Will My Parents Come to See Me

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Panorama.doc

Season’s top documentary films

Ivan Labutin, Natalia Pylaeva speak about the program

Imago

Lumière, l'aventure continue / Lumiere! The Adventure Continues

Adrianne & The Castle

Balomania

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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Twin Peaks

New hits from world’s leading festivals

About the programme

Kuang ye shi dai / Resurrection

Nouvelle Vague

Miroirs No. 3 / Mirrors No. 3

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New Voices

Films by directors seeking new forms

Mikhail Ratgauz speaks about the program

Alpha.

Matt and Mara

Fogo do Vento / Fire of Wind

Le Lac

Bird of Passage

Rewind & Play

After Dreaming

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In Between: St. Petersburg’s Film Culture of the 1990s

Works straight from the turbulent era of a new world’s formation

Egor Sennikov speaks about the program

Mitki in Euroпe Yolly-Pally

Obvodny Canal

Whit Monday

Rains in the Ocean

Concert for a Ra

The Iron Heel of Oligarchy

Upyr

Airplane

Submarine

Sunrise

Penguins

Phantoms of White Nights

The End of St. Petersburg, or New Icarus

Group Portrait of Loneliness

Zhuk-1

Above the Lake

Neo-Academicism Manifesto

Emptiness

The Aftertaste

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Art Deco: The Art of Being Loud

Programme marking the centenary of a style that permeated the entire 20th century

Maxim Seleznev speaks about the programme

L'inhumaine / The Inhuman Woman

The Kiss

The women

La Paloma

Chinesisches Roulette / Chinese Roulette

Mélo

E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

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Grotesque as a Response

Excess and absurdity in the cinema of the new twenties

Katerina Beloglazova speaks about the programme

Cent Mille Milliards / 100.000.000.000.000

Kafka for Kids

Birds Whose Legs Break Off

Un futuro brillante / A Bright Future

Flatality

Undergods

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Mapping Paris: New French Cinema

Starring the legendary city of Old Europe

Alisa Nasrtdinova speaks about the programme

La bataille de Solférino / Age of Panic

Revoir Paris / Paris Memories

Nous / We

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Multiverse

Out-of-competition short film section featuring the best entries not included in the competition

Diana Abu Usef, Katerina Beloglazova, Maria Gotlib, Vasily Stepanov speak about the program

Soixante-sept millisecondes / Sixty-seven Milliseconds

A.

Being John Smith

Nio gånger bättre / Nine Times Better

Ontem Lembrei de Minha Mãe / I Remember My Mom

Jour après jour / Day After Day

El Canon / The Canon

Who Was Here?

Lamento

Atelier Rolle, un voyage / Rolle Workshop, A Journey

Siam Pronti Alla Morte / Ready to Die

We Will Not Be the Last of Our Kind

Kad svane / Upon Sunrise

The Things We Carry

To Leave a House

Euclidean Man

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Young Russian Cinema: Present Continuous

The new youth of Russian cinema

Katerina Beloglazova, Vasily Stepanov, Pavel Pugachev speak about the program

Ahurma

Danet

Агара / Cradle

Camilla’s Couriers

Progress Report

A Song for the Young Voice

Petenka Petr

After Death, Ruins Remain

Reproduction

Broken Lights

The Black Blizzard

Ephemerality

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Out of Autofocus: Films by Mikhail Basov

The first St. Petersburg retrospective of the world-famous artist

Mikhail Basov speaks about the programme

The Spot of Time

Free Movements

Film for Imaginary Music

A Plastic Bottle’s Stair Dance

Out of Autofocus

La Bagatelle

Short Circuits

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Special Screenings

Russian Hamlet

MARE’S NEST

Naum. Predictions

People, Gods and Other Creatures

On This Land

Pale Wind

Svetlana Kryuchkova: Classics and Modernity

Sister Regina

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