From 20 to 22 November, the Echoes of the 36th Message to Man International Film Festival come to Ekaterinburg. Screenings will take place at the Yeltsin Center.<\/p>\n
Stay with Me a Little Longer<\/a> Me Too (Make Films)<\/a> Kidnappers<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Mother<\/a> Before the Sun<\/a> Maternal Dreams<\/a> View screening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Hideaway<\/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
\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>\nSaturday, 21 November<\/h3>\n
17:00, Yeltsin Center<\/h4>\n
\nDir. Elizaveta Bobyleva, Russia, 2025, 40 min.
\nA single day split Svetlana\u2019s life into \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter\u201d: her husband left, and for a year and a half her elder daughter filmed the family learning to live anew.<\/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>\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>\n19:00, Yeltsin Center<\/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>\nSunday, 22 November<\/h3>\n
16:00, Yeltsin Center<\/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>\n19:00, Yeltsin Center<\/h4>\n