On the third day of the festival, visitors will be able to watch three film blocks of international feature and short-film competition (each feature film is paired with a short film): Overseas tells a story of Filipino domestic servants who are trained before being sent to their «masters». Sung-A Yoon, film director: Filipinos are often portrayed as obedient and naturally predisposed to take care of children and the elderly. I wanted to destroy this stereotype and to show that they have personalities and are not just weak-willed victims; they are not statistics. This film that addresses the topic of movement…
On September 14–21, Message to Man film festival will showcase in St Petersburg the best examples of auteur cinema from all over the world, bringing filmmakers together. The programme is huge, with 130 viewings, 10 venues and a catalogue with several hundred pages that will take several weeks to read. If you are not just ready for such feats, we’ve got good news for you. Special programme Superreal Cinema offers the feature films that have already passed rigorous selection at major international film festivals. Furthermore, most of these films will not be released in Russia soon, and some of them…
Here is the next day of the XXXII Message to Man Film Festival in St. Petersburg. Every day our website will recommend five films from its competition and out-of-competition programmes. Vegetable Garden A story of elderly women from the provinces in search of meaning in their lives. Zoya lives in the city, but every day she has to go out of town to water her vegetable garden, which helps to feed her family. Despite her advanced years, she doesn’t complain and does not impose her unhappiness upon others. One day she meets Valery at a sanatorium, and an instant…
Jury and the audience will see 73 competing films, 32 Russian and 15 world premières. XXX International Film Festival Message to Man that will take place from November 3 to 8 in St. Petersburg, announced its competition programmes. Jury and the audience will see 73 films in three competition programmes of the Festival: International, National and In Silico Experimental competitions. This year, Message to Man will mainly be hosted by Dom Kino and Rodina, the cinemas where the Festival was born 30 years ago. To many locals, the bronze Centaur (a work by Dimitry Pakhomov based on a drawing by…
Announcing special programmes of the 29th Message to Man Film Festival. Viewers can attend seven special programmes, two retrospectives and six special screenings. Museum of the History of Photography will host an exhibition of Icelandic video art. Festival programme includes free-of-charge workshops, meet-the-artist events, discussions and professional conferences. Superreal Cinema Curator: Andrei Plakhov (Moscow), Programme Director of the Message to Man Film Festival. This is a programme of the best fiction films, which have made a powerful impression at the biggest global film festivals, which we have identified as contemporary cinema for which the traditional understanding of realism is no…
The 31st Message to Man International Film Festival is concluding with a closing ceremony held online for the first time. For many years, the festival has been among Russia’s leading film presentation events in terms of the number of applications and the geographical scope of participants. In 2021, 2,629 applications from 100 countries of the world were submitted for the qualifying round of the festival. Only 76 films were included in the competition. On November 3, the winning films of 2021 were announced at the closing ceremony of the festival, which was held online without attendees. Among the participants of…
Dear guests and participants, the schedule with navigation will be available on our website soon. Here you can get to know the program in list format. September 15 Saturday 07:00 pm Dvortsovaya Ploshchad (Square) Opening ceremony of the 28th Message to Man International Film Festival Opening film «Youth», dir. Paolo Sorrentino, Feature film, Italy/France/UK/Switzerland 2015, 124 min. Special guest of the ceremony - Paolo Sorrentino September 16 Sunday Velikan Park. Hall 1 Alexander Park 4 03:00 pm Superreal cinema «Girl», dir. Lukas Dhont, Feature film, Belgium, 2018, 105 min. 05:10 pm Panorama.doc «Оf Fathers and…