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2026

48th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) Moscow (Russia). 16 - 23 April 2026
The 48th Moscow Film Festival has selected approximately 200 films from 43 countries.

39th "NIKA" Prizes for 2025

Artdocfest / International Riga - 28 February - 08 March 2026
The international documentary film festival “Artdocfest” took place in Moscow until 2022. Since then, its headquarters have been in Riga. This year, from February 28 to March 8, 2026, the films are being screened in Riga. However, a significant number of films are available online with English subtitles until the end of May 2026. They can be accessed from the page for these films on our website.

Award "White Elephant" for 2025
"White Elephant" Film Critics Award for 2025

24th Golden Eagle awards For 2025
The Golden Eagle is a national film award of Russia, established by the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia.

4th Univerciné à l'Est Nantes (France), 03 - 08 February 2026
The festival in the East closely follows international film festivals and those dedicated to current cinema in the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Baltic States and Eastern Europe, both in France and elsewhere in the world, when planning its programme.

Cycle Dovjenko à la Cinémathèque française Paris (France), 21 - 30 January 2026

Jérôme Seydoux Foundation. Georgian silent cinema, mirror of a nation, Paris (France) - 04 February 2026 - 03 March 2026

INHA, INALCO International conference: The Most Important of All Ages: Children, Childhood[s], and the Childlike in Soviet Cinema. Paris - 04 - 06 May 2026

Sunday morning film club at Le Balzac. Russian cinema
One Sunday per month at 11 a.m. at Le Balzac cinema (1 rue Balzac, 75008 Paris): a Russian film to see or revisit...

2025

Awards and award-winning films

All events

What's going on? : 2025

47th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), 17-24 April 2025
This year's Russian film festival, which ran parallel to the international festival, did not take place.

25th International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana" Perm (Russia), 19 - 25 September 2025

30th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film Suzdal (Russia), 19 - 24 March 2025

Paris and Ile de France Russian Film Festival, , 19/03/2025 - 05/04/2025
This year's Russian Film Festival will take place in Paris from 19 to 27 March, in Malakoff from 19 to 20 March, in Suresnes from 28 to 30 March and in Taverny from 1 to 5 April.

International Festival of Archive Films Moscow (Russia) - 26 September - 05 October 2025
The festival is organized, as every year, by Gosfilmofond, the Russian center for international film archives. The opening film, the famous fairy tale The Little Humpbacked Horse (Конек - горбунок) by Aleksandr ROU, is the first Soviet fairy tale film in color. Its restoration was a difficult task carried out by Gosfilmofond, respecting the original structure of the two negatives, each with different colors.

Films selected at the Open Russian Animation Film Festival - Suzdal (Russia) since its creation in 1996
The Suzdal Festival (Russia) is the most important Russian animation film festival. It has been around since 1996. You will find on this page, for each year, all the films selected and the main awards. We ask our readers to apologize for the imperfections of presentation and the non-translation of the pages concerning the years from 1996 to 2007

1st Moscow Women Film Festival Moscow, 28 -30 March 2025
Russia's first women's film festival. As well as recent films, there is an interesting retrospective.

1st Yakut film festival Different cities (Russia) - 21-27 September 2025
Screenings will be held in seven major cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Sochi

Russian cinema at the Berlin Film Festival from 1951 to 2025
Russian cinema at the Berlin Film Festival from 1951 to 2025. The 2025 Berlin Festival takes place from February 13 to 23, 2025.No Russian films are selected for the competition. A tribute is paid to Russian director Marlen KHUTSIEV (1925-2019) on the centenary of his birth. On this page we give for all the Berlin festivals since the first which took place in 1951 the list of Russian films selected and the prizes obtained.

Official list of Russian films for school programs
August 2025. The Russian Federation's Ministry of Education has published a list of one hundred films that are essential viewing as part of the school curriculum. All of the films on the list are part of Soviet cinematic heritage.

War in contemporary Russian cinema
This page presents the films of contemporary Russian cinema listed on kinoglaz.fr, in which one or more wars play a significant role. The list of films does not claim to be exhaustive and only concerns feature films or documentaries longer than 30 minutes.

Russian cinema beyond borders

Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr

Russian films selected at the Cannes Festival since its creation

Actors, actresses and stars
By clicking on the first link on the page, you can obtain the complete list of actors (or actresses) listed on kinoglaz.fr, whose number exceeds 9800. The list we provide on this page contains just over a hundred who have received prestigious Russian or international awards. Which of them are stars? We leave it to our readers to decide. Of course, this list is not definitive and will be regularly updated.

Lenin in Russian and Soviet cinema
On this page, we present 90 films that mention Lenin and contribute to shaping a certain image of the founder of the Soviet regime. This list of films, consisting mainly of feature-length fiction films, does not claim to be exhaustive. Contemporary cinema continues to fuel this reflection, with the release of a series entitled “Chronicles of the Russian Revolution” (Хроники русской революции) by Andrei Konchalovsky expected before the end of 2025, and a Russian-Indian co-production, tentatively titled Lenin, scheduled for release in 2026.

Architecture and Social Life in Russian Cinema kinoglaz.fr (France) - 16 June 2025
Since the dawn of time, humans have used architecture to create or choose their living environment. Since the dawn of time, humans have wanted this living environment to be not only protective but also useful, pleasant and beautiful for themselves, their families and the community in which they live. The individual and social lives of humans depend in part on the architecture of their living environment and cause it to evolve. It is therefore not surprising that cinema, from its very beginnings, has illustrated and sometimes amplified this interaction between social life and architecture.

Adaptations of Works by the Strugatsky Brothers
We only feature feature-length fiction films, whether Russian or Soviet. Other types of films can be found in the Russian article Киновселенная братьев Стругацких: фильмография (Cinematic Universe of the Strugatsky Brothers: Filmography).

Time travel and Soviet cinema kinoglaz.fr (France) - 07 July 2025 -
For each film on this page, we've provided a link to reviews written by readers of the Kinopoisk website. The reviews, some of which are very recent, are in Russian, but today's browsers allow for instant translation of any web page.

Soviet cinema and songs
On this page, we have selected 82 songs from 73 Soviet films. This page lists singers in alphabetical order, with a photo of each one followed by a list of the films in which they sing.

The conquest of space in Soviet cinema
We have selected 49 films, each of which recounts, in its own way, the extraordinary cosmic epic, sometimes imagined, sometimes experienced, by the Soviets, culminating in Yuri Gagarin's first journey into space on 12 April 1961. Among the fiction films, several have become cult classics, including The Planet of Storms, 1961, by Pavel KLOUCHANTSEV, which more than forty years later inspired several American films, and the silent film Cosmic Flight, 1935, by Vassili JOURAVLIOV, a pioneering film that became popular in the 1960s, notably for illustrating the problems of weightlessness encountered by cosmonauts

2024

Review of the 2024 film year

Joël CHAPRON : « 2024 : Pour le pouvoir comme pour les spectateurs, le cinéma sert à fuir la réalité », interview, kinoglaz.fr, interview, kinoglaz.fr

Box office Russia 2024

Awards and award-winning films

All 2024 events

What's going on? : 2024

46th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) (19-26/04/2024)

24th International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana" Perm (Russia), 20 - 27 September 2024

29th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film Suzdal (Russia) - 20 - 25 March 2024

Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, 2024

List of recommended Russian films for secondary school pupils
List of Russian films recommended by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation for secondary school students, published in September 2024.

1st International Film Festival ANTARES, Sochi (Russia), 25 - 30 June 2024

1st Festival of singular film Moscow (Russia) - 21-30 September 2024

Centenary of Sergey Parajanov (1924-1990)

Centenary of Mosfilm Studios

Dressing dreams and reality. Nadejda Vasilieva - The art of costume in cinema

Award-winning films in Berlin, Cannes or Venice

Soviet comedies

Sport in Russian and Soviet feature films

Soviet musicals

Stars of Soviet cinema - 50s and 60s

The Cinema of Sakha (Yakutia)

Animated films without words

"Forbidden" contemporary Films

Last DVDs registered on kinoglaz.fr

Russian or Soviet cinema on Telegram
Our page provides a link to the main Telegram channels relating to Russian or Soviet cinema. To view the content of one of these channels, you do not need to have downloaded the application. However, downloading is free and will enable you to find other channels that may be of interest to you. The Telegram application is widely used by Russians
You can consult Telegram's public channels, like ours, using the ‘Search’ field. To find us, just search for ‘Russian cinema’. Note, however, that our exact title is: ‘Cinéma russe / Российское кино / Russian cinema’.
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The kinoglaz.fr association
Following its General Meeting on 17 February 2024, our page on the website has been modified. In particular, you can see the new list of members of the Board of Directors

2022

Review of the Russian film year 2022

Joël CHAPRON : « 2022, l’année de tous les dangers pour le cinéma russe », interview, kinoglaz.fr

Box office Russia 2022

Awards and award-winning films

All 2022 events

What's going on? : 2022

33rd Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr Sochi (Russia), 13-20 September 2022
The Kinotavr festival in Sochi, which was due to take place from 13 to 20 September, will not be taking place. The organisers have announced that the event has been postponed indefinitely.

22nd International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana" Perm (Russia), 16-22 September 2022

27th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film Suzdal (Russia), 16-21 March 2022

30th Honfleur Russian Film Festival Honfleur (France), 22-27 November 2022
The board and members of the association Les Amis du Festival du Cinéma Russe à Honfleur, meeting on 28 February 2022, have unanimously decided to suspend the organisation of the Russian Film Festival planned for November in Honfleur. In the current situation, the Association cannot envisage organising a cultural event with Russia.

International Art Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest" Moscow (Russia) - 31 March 2022 - 03 April 2022
In 2022, only the "On Line" Festival was able to take place: The "In theaters" festival was canceled on its opening day, following demonstrations against the screening of certain films deemed "anti-Russian" by the demonstrators.

Russian films re-released in Russia in 2022

Russian Film Festival in Honfleur from 1995 to 2021

Cinéma russe post-soviétique : 1992-2005

Cinéma russe contemporain depuis 2006

Russian cinema and the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Best films according to ...

Ukraine in the films of kinoglaz.fr

Soviet cinema of Perestroika (1985-1991)