XX International Documentary
Film Festival Flahertiana
| ONLINE
11 December – 17 December 2020
11 December, Friday
11 December 21:30 MSK
Live!
Not So Genetically | The Villager
A bright attempt to look into the eyes of a contemporary theater artist | Observation film about human life and nature
Language: Russian; russian subtitles
11 December 22:50
12 December, Saturday
12 December 22:20 MSK
Live!
Lenchik | One
From America with love! An unusual story of homecoming | A film about finding a place in a new devastated world
Language: Russian
12 December 23:30
13 December, Sunday
13 December 22:30 MSK
Live!
Alfaromeo | The Golden Buttons | Paper Worlds of Latif Kazbekov
A film sketch about the power to be weak | The brightest student premiere of 2020! | Film-guide to the world of the artist
Language: Russian; russian subtitles
13 December 23:40
14 December, Monday
14 December 22:30 MSK
Live!
Winter Twerk | Restless Nastya
An important social statement and real director's luck | Explosive film about a woman and love
Language: Russian; russian subtitles
14 December 23:30
15 December, Tuesday
15 December 22:00 MSK
Live!
15 days | Kids | The First Word
A Christmas story about childhood and growing up | A touching and intimate observation of the smallest and the oldest | Love-hate relationships – who wins?
Language: Russian; russian subtitles
15 December 23:20
16 December, Wednesday
16 December 22:30 MSK
Live!
Don't Hesitate To Come For a Visit, Mom | Novoshino | Ninety First
Gadgets and motherly love | The most optimistic film of the student competition | An inspirational story for those on the way to their dreams
Language: Russian
16 December 23:20
XX International Documentary
Film Festival Flahertiana
| ONLINE
Flahertiana is one of the largest documentary film events in Russia.
The 20th anniversary festival will be held in a new format: screenings and discussions of films in competition will take place online.
The competition program is the heart of Flahertiana. There are 47 amazing documentary film stories that have been waiting for a whole year to meet their audience.
You will go on a cruise with a real Scottish baron in King of the Cruise, escape from Iran with a young family to meet love in Love Child, learn Christmas secrets that are kept in the Chinese town in Merry Christmas, Yiwu. These and other stories from all over the world – in the International Competition of “Flahertiana-2020”.
The National Competition brings together small stories and epic documentaries from the life of Russians. Ural stand-up comedians (Stand-up is Pain), a philosophic reindeer herder from Yakutia (Northern Wind Can Be Warm), young idealistic teachers (Hey! Teachers!) and witnesses of the Second World War (Wilfred and Alexandra) – each film hero of "Russian Flahertiana" has a story to tell.
Diversity and versatility are the main distinguishing features of the Student Competition. Traditionally, уoung directors are not afraid of difficult topics: with talent and honesty, they film emigration (Lenchik), ageing (Kids), relationships within the family (The First Word), love and death (One).
All films of the festival correspond to the aesthetics of Robert Flaherty, the filmmaker whose name was given to Flahertiana. The main method of Flahertiana’s films is a long-term observation, "habitual camera". The main character lives on the screen a part of his life, and it is captured the way it is. Films of Flahertiana line up in a gallery of portraits of contemporaries and thus draw a line under the outgoing year of world documentary cinema.
