Krasnoyarsk will become the centre of documentary filmmaking thanks to the International Film Festival SiberiaDOC on December 5.

This year's Festival features films that not only explore our changing world, but also develop the language of cinema through powerful visual and dramatic images.

Independent documentary filmmaking is a rapidly developing niche. In the modern world, it is something of a tool for conveying emotions and personal stories. Those creators, whose characters often reflect themselves, strive to change life for the better through cinema, opening up new cultural and social horizons for viewers.

In 2024, the Festival received 578 applications from 64 countries, including Iran, Brazil, Spain, China, Italy and Argentina. Out of them, 16 films from 11 countries were eventually selected to be presented to the Russian public for the first time. Meetings and discussions with the authors will be held as part of the screenings of the Russian programme.

The SiberiaDOC 2024 includes three competition programmes:

- International Competition Programme – Full-length: films from 60 to 180 minutes long, created no later than January 1, 2023. These works explore the deep connections between people, regardless of their residence or origin.

- Short and Medium-length Feature Competition: films between 10 and 60 minutes in length, made no later than January 1, 2023. Shorter features traditionally attract experimental filmmakers and true cinephiles who strive for innovation.

- Russian films: contemporary Russian short and full-length features that reveal the depth and multifaceted nature of our country.

The Russian premiere of the French film Seul Godard (directed by Arnaud Lambert, Vincent Sorrel, 2023), an immersion into an artist's world and a cinematic reconstruction of the thoughts of the great Jean-Luc Godard, will take place before the opening of the Festival.

The Festival will close with a screening of one of the most successful Russian films of the year, Against the Wind, which will be presented by director Tatyana Soboleva. The film tells the story of the fight against an environmental disaster in the Nogai steppe in northern Dagestan.

This year, the number of the venues for the Festival will increase. Screenings and other events will take place in the Krasnoyarsk Cinema House, the children's cinema "Mechta", the museum centre "Ploshchad Mira", as well as in the creative cluster "Kvadrat". Traditionally, viewers, invited directors and film industry professionals will be able to take part in the discussion of the SiberiaDOC's programme.