Festival Data:

• Established: 1989
• Genre: Animation - Games, Documentary
• Attendance: 8000
• Media Attendance: 10
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 35
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 1254
• Total Number of Films Screened: 305
• Total Screenings: 26
• # of Shorts Screened: 305
• Accreditations: FIAPF

• Competitive
• Has Panels

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Festival Description:

The films are chosen for the Message to Man International Film Festival according to the idea that the purpose of the people in Art is to create their own world and to reflect the reality. Those works that merely state problems or retell some events in the way of TV-news are rejected, no matter how interesting they could be.
The Festival values how the authors can express themselves, what methods they use, how they correlate with their characters.

Short-feature films are considered as a separate genre with its own peculiarities - like literature with its strict distinction between a novel and a short story. The Festival especially welcomes the films of tangled styles and genres. For instance: a combination of a short-feature and animation styles and even animation and documentary.

The idea of Message to Man is to emphasize the importance of non-feature films for the global culture and to let the native documentary filmmakers become the full members of the cinematographic world. Now, as the festival deals with short-feature, animation films, as well as with the documentaries, its purposes have become even more complicated.

The program of the Festival presents the new forms and styles in the world and native filmmaking to the specialists, and introduce the viewers to genres of cinema unfamiliar to them. Message to Man - is both the name and the slogan of the festival. It refers to the Bible and reflects the main issues of the meeting: Faith, Hope, Love, Mercy, and Compassion, which the Festival endeavors to find in our real life and cinematography today.

Festival program includes:

International Competition, National Documentary Competition, "Gateway to Russia," and Special programs.  

International Competition

Documentary films (max duration 120 min), short fiction and animated films (max duration 40 min)

National Documentary Competition-"Gateway to Russia"

The full-length documentary films (max duration 120 min), short fiction and animated films (max duration 40 min,) produced in Russian Federation or having certificate “National film”

Special Programs

Special Programs are supervised by the Festival Organization Committee   

Film Submissions:

• Call for Entry: http:/ / 213.159.107.218/ entry/ entry.ASP?WCI=links_tmp&WCE=entryENG&WC