From 13 to 27 November, the Echoes of the 36th Message to Man International Film Festival come to Moscow. Screenings will take place at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the Zotov Centre, the Tretyakov Gallery, GES-2 and the Karo Oktyabr cinema.<\/p>\n
Unfading Dawn<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Illusion of Reality: a programme of 9 films View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Hideaway<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Make Films<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Stay with Me a Little Longer<\/a> Me Too (Make Films)<\/a> Kidnappers<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Scenes from Capital<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Chuuraa<\/a> City of Owls<\/a> The Wind Blows Wherever It Wants<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Today Herman Is 122 over 85<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Joybubbles<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Chicks<\/a> Status \u201cB\u201d<\/a> Maternal Dreams<\/a> Before the Sun<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Secret Mall Apartment<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Adventures of Mosaics on Ground and Under<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Nostalgia for the Future<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A Man of His Time<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Hair Curlers on a Bald Man<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Yo, Love Is the Rebellious Bird<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n ADGIN PRRX<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Arina<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Magic Atlas<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n There\u2019s Enough Happiness for Everyone<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\nDir. Marlen Khutsiev, Russia, 2026, 126 min.
\nIn 1897, Leo Tolstoy unexpectedly visits Anton Chekhov in hospital. So begins a series of meetings and conversations between two gravely ill writers about life and death, never without a sense of humour.
\nThe Moscow premiere of Marlen Khutsiev\u2019s film, left unfinished at the director\u2019s death. In 2026 it was completed at the initiative of his friends and colleagues, with Ali Khamraev and Naum Kleiman as artistic supervisors and Andrei Natotsinsky as editor.<\/p>\n19:30, Garage Museum<\/h4>\n
\nThe programme brings together films from the In Silico<\/a> experimental competition and Liza Zenkova\u2019s film from the Prompted Reality<\/a> special programme, which gives the screening its title.<\/p>\n\n
Saturday, 14 November<\/h3>\n
16:30, Zotov Centre<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Nikita Kartsev, Russia, 2026, 82 min.
\nThe city as a space where every act of creation is shadowed by destruction, and the filmmaker\u2019s own anxiety as he awaits the birth of his son.<\/p>\n18:15, Zotov Centre<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Masha Chernaya, Russia, 2026, 105 min.
\nA film about the shooting of Roman Mikhailov\u2019s While the Sky Is Watching<\/em>: a portrait of the director, his method and the world of underground dancers.<\/p>\n19:00, Garage Museum<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Stasya Khomeriki-Grankovskaya, Russia, 2026, 42 min.
\nInga Balabanova remembers her son, not as a famous filmmaker but as Alyosha.<\/p>\n
\nDir. Anastasia Prasolova, Russia, 2026, 5 min.
\nAn aspiring documentary filmmaker searches for a subject for her film school entrance sketch and ends up at Aleksei Balabanov\u2019s grave at 11 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nDir. Aleksei Sukhovei, Russia, 2026, 31 min.
\nPeople land on an island to capture the calves of a prehistoric \u201csheep-ox\u201d, yet they are not hunters.<\/p>\nSunday, 15 November<\/h3>\n
17:00, Zotov Centre<\/h4>\n
\nDirectors: Fedor Maksimishin and Darya Suslova.
\nConcept: Mikhail Ratgauz.
\nProducers: Anna Vasilyeva, Asya Dunaevskaya, Maria Gribova.
\nArchive research: Maria Bessolitsyna.
\nA hypothetical reconstruction of Eisenstein\u2019s unrealised project using artificial intelligence tools. A joint project of the Message to Man IFF and the Kinopoisk platform.<\/p>\n19:00, Garage Museum<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Evgenia Arbugaeva, UK, 2026, 18 min.
\nA Yakut palaeontologist descends into the depths of thawing permafrost in search of an ancient creature: a journey between mythology and science.<\/p>\n
\nDir. Zhenia Kazankina, Germany, Russia, 2026, 13 min.
\nOn her last evening before leaving, Vera tells her little sister a bedtime story about a city of eternal night to hide the real reason they are parting.<\/p>\n
\nDir. Ivan Boiko, Georgia, 2025, 69 min.
\nShepherds of Tusheti drive thousands of sheep along an ancient route between the Caucasus peaks and the Vashlovani steppes, where nomadic tradition meets the modern world.<\/p>\nThursday, 19 November<\/h3>\n
19:30, Karo Oktyabr<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Peter Shepotinnik, Russia, 2026, 44 min.
\nA few days in 2003 inside Aleksei German\u2019s creative laboratory during the shooting of Hard to Be a God<\/em>.<\/p>\nFriday, 20 November<\/h3>\n
19:00, Tretyakov Gallery<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Rachael J. Morrison, USA, 2026, 77 min.
\nIn the 1950s, a boy blind from birth discovers he can control the telephone network by whistling, and gives rise to a subculture that shaped the future of hacking.<\/p>\n19:30, Karo Oktyabr<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Anna Donskova, Russia, 2025, 4 min.
\nThe life and daily routine of young women after arrest, in a detention centre and before it.<\/p>\n
\nDir. Gleb Vazhdaev, Russia, 2026, 19 min.
\nThree would-be lovers meet in a military hospital.<\/p>\n
\nDir. Anna Shveigolts, Russia, 2026, 5 min.
\nA film built from dreams about pregnancy and motherhood that different women sent to the director.<\/p>\n
\nDir. Alisa Tamarova, Russia, 2026, 35 min.
\nA summer camp on the Black Sea becomes a place of growing up for teenagers from an orphanage.<\/p>\nSaturday, 21 November<\/h3>\n
18:00, Karo Oktyabr<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Jeremy Workman, USA, 2024, 92 min.
\nEight Rhode Island residents secretly lived for four years in an apartment hidden inside a shopping mall, filming everything on camera.<\/p>\n18:00, Tretyakov Gallery<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Aleksey Fedorchenko, Russia, 2026, 75 min.
\nThe story of mosaic art in Russia told through the Frolov dynasty of master craftsmen.<\/p>\n18:00, GES-2<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Brecht Debackere, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, 2026, 75 min.
\nA journey into the world of Chris Marker, \u201cthe best-known author of unknown films\u201d, narrated by Charlotte Rampling.<\/p>\n20:00, Tretyakov Gallery<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Emmanuel Marre, France, Belgium, 2026, 158 min.
\nSeptember 1940: 49-year-old Henri Marre arrives in Vichy with copies of his own manifesto, determined to find a place in the new administration.<\/p>\nSunday, 22 November<\/h3>\n
14:00, Tretyakov Gallery<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Masha Godovannaya, Russia, Mexico, 2026, 84 min.
\nAn essay film about Georgy Millyar, the actor who played Baba Yaga, Koschei and \u201call the devils and kikimoras\u201d in Aleksandr Rou\u2019s fairy-tale films.<\/p>\n17:00, Karo Oktyabr<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Anna Fitch, Banker White, USA, 2026, 78 min.
\nAfter losing her friend, Anna spends ten years building a 1:3 scale replica of her house and places inside it a puppet of Yo.<\/p>\n17:30, GES-2<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Austria, 2026, 167 min.
\nA reworking of John Frankenheimer\u2019s Grand Prix<\/em>: a personal meditation on time, the thrill of speed and its melancholy.<\/p>\n18:00, Zotov Centre<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Ivan Druzhinin, Russia, 2026, 127 min.
\nThe story of an artist seeking peace of mind when war knocks on her door.<\/p>\n19:30, Tretyakov Gallery<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Sun Xun, Singapore, 2026, 85 min.
\nIn the coal empire of Locha, a travelling magician lands in prison and, before his execution, hands the orphan Xiao Zhi a magic atlas.<\/p>\nFriday, 27 November<\/h3>\n
19:15, Zotov Centre<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Dasha Senicheva, Russia, 2026, 84 min.
\nTerekhovo, one of Moscow\u2019s last villages, is disappearing under new development, and so is the life of its resident Vasya.<\/p>\n21:00, Zotov Centre<\/h4>\n