20.10.2026 at 19:30. Proyavka. Leningrad Documentary School: Summer Is Coming Soon, State Road, A Walk in the Mountains, Dom Kino, Lilac Hall

Description

Everyday life at a sweets factory: a grey, grinding existence. An invited lecturer speaks of fine feelings, of love and courtship, but he does not know what it takes to produce a box of chocolates that someone would bring to a beloved woman on International Women’s Day. Falling snow covers the streets. Then spring comes, followed by summer, but in the smoking room, in rare minutes of rest, the factory workers will keep talking about a life that is passing.

About the director:

Pavel Kogan

Director, Honoured Artist of Russia. Born in Leningrad in 1931. His films Look at the Face and A Military Band became key works of the Leningrad Studio of Documentary Film (LSDF). Together with cinematographer Pyotr Mostovoy he helped shape a distinctive language of Leningrad documentary cinema, one that values the human face, the telling detail, and the independent life of the material observed.

Description

In a narrow railway carriage people travel across the vast country. Outside its windows, villages, towns, cemeteries, forests and factories drift by. Inside, passengers drink tea, sleep and engage in endless conversations. The camera moves from one open-berth compartment to another, gradually turning the journey into a strange voyage with no obvious destination. Where does this route begin and end? Who is driving the train? And where is it going at all?

About the director:

Viktor Semenyuk

Documentary director and one of the well-known figures of the Leningrad Studio of Documentary Film (LSDF). Born in 1940 in Vladivostok. He played an important part in the history of the Message to Man festival, and was involved in its structure and programming. His work addressed themes of memory and personal testimony.

Description

A male academic choir of drivers from Pskov. What unites these people is love of their local area, their craft and song. As it watches them, the film gradually becomes a reflection on a person’s bond with the place they live.

About the director:

Sergei Skvortsov

Cinematographer and director. Born in 1949 in Volgograd. He graduated from VGIK’s cinematography faculty in 1979. That same year he became cinematographer and director at the Leningrad Studio of Documentary Film (LSDF).

Sergei Litvyakov

Sound recordist, screenwriter and director at the Leningrad Studio of Documentary Film (LSDF). Born in Leningrad in 1957. He began work at the studio in 1973, first as a sound recordist and, from the late 1980s, as a screenwriter and director. Honoured Artist of Russia.