SCHEDULE OF THE V INTERNATIONAL Festival of Rural Cinema “PECHKA‑2026”
Film Screenings
Creative Meetings / Professional Programme
Lectures on Traditional Culture
Children’s Programme
Other
Day 1 · August 13, Thursday
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Guided Tour “Wonders of Shelota” Svetlana Stepanova — for participants and jury members | Meeting point: stage near the church |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Film Screening Best of Pechka Festival 2021–2025 | House of Culture |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Festival Opening Ceremony | House of Culture |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Opening Film Screening — “Coming Home”, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director John Mitchell Johnson (USA) | House of Culture |
| 21:00 – 22:30 | Open-Air Film Screening | Troitskaya Meadow |
| 22:30 – 23:50 | Evening Gathering on the Veranda | Veranda |
Day 2 · August 14, Friday
| 07:00 – 08:30 | Early Bird Programme Creative and intellectual tea gathering | Veranda |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Lecture on Traditional Musical Instruments Alexander Kelarev | Veranda |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Children’s Film Campus “Making a Film”. Session 1 — “Creating a Story”. Boris Dragilev, actor and storytelling coach; Angelina Karelina, actress and improvisation coach | House of Culture |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Competition Programme, Part 1 “The Association”, dir. Juan Camilo Muñoz Quintero (Colombia) “About a Cow”, dir. Anton Simukhin and Nikolai Alekseev (Russia) “Rural Drama and Comedy”, dir. Anastasia Velskaya (Russia) “Boltogoy!”, dir. Valeria Dobroselskaya (Russia) Running time: 1 h 34 min | House of Culture |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Children’s Film Campus “Making a Film”. Session 2 — Interactive Masterclass “How Films Are Made” Sergey Sergeev, film director | House of Culture |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Lecture “Traditional Russian Northern Costume: Metishche” Nadezhda Pustyreva — master craftsperson and traditional costume collector | Veranda |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Competition Programme, Part 2 “Kahur”, dir. Amir Masoud Soheili (Iran) “Nauzy”, dir. Maria Streltsova (Russia) “In the Footsteps of Goats”, dir. Muhammed Enes Alıcı (Turkey) “The Bridge”, dir. Romana Kirshak (Russia) Running time: 1 h 35 min | House of Culture |
| 22:00 – 23:30 | Evening Gathering on the Veranda Storytelling Evening | Veranda |
| 22:00 – 23:30 | Open-Air Film Screening | Troitskaya Meadow |
Day 3 · August 15, Saturday
| 07:00 – 08:30 | Early Bird Programme Creative and intellectual tea gathering | Veranda |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Lecture “Grandmother’s House: A Portal into Russian Wooden Architecture” Evgeny Rakov — wooden architecture restorer | Veranda |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Children’s Film Campus “Making a Film”. Session 3 — Practice: Filming a Movie (throughout the day). Curators: Boris Dragilev, Angelina Karelina, Sergey Sergeev | House of Culture |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Guided Tour “Wonders of Shelota” Svetlana Stepanova | Meeting point: stage near the church |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Competition Programme, Part 3 “The Shepherd’s Joy”, dir. Lungisani Lucas Gwadiso (South Africa) “Yay”, dir. Timur Tsiglov (Russia) “The Sea”, dir. Gu Xiaojun (China) “Earth and Copper”, dir. Darya Artyushkova (Russia) Running time: 1 h 39 min | House of Culture |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Competition Programme, Part 4 “The Last Puestero”, dir. Belle Casares (Argentina) “Ethnographer from Siberia”, dir. Yana Goryun (Russia) “Iturralde”, dir. John Martia (Spain) “Signs of Life”, dir. Kristina Parkhomenko (Russia) Running time: 1 h 37 min | House of Culture |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Creative Meeting with Director Alexander Alexandrov Masterclass “Documentary Filmmaking in a War Zone” | House of Culture |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Lecture “The Russian Stove: From Structure to Symbol. The Stove in Rituals and Beliefs of the Russian North” Irina Dubova — Director of the Verkhovazhye Museum | Veranda |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Photo Walk | Meeting point: stage near the church |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Songs and Round Dances at Troitskaya Meadow The Radonitsa Ensemble | Troitskaya Meadow |
| 21:00 – 21:30 | Firing of the Fire Sculpture | Square |
| 21:30 – 23:00 | Evening of Original Songs | Veranda |
| 21:30 – 23:00 | Open-Air Film Screening “Films nominated for the Audience Award — participants in the network screening” | Square |
Day 4 · August 16, Sunday
| 07:00 – 08:30 | Early Bird Programme Creative and intellectual tea gathering | Veranda |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Lecture “Preserving Traditional Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Fashion Design: The Example of Vologda Lace” Using Vologda lace as an example | Veranda |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Screening of the Film Made During the Children’s Film Campus. Children’s Performance. | House of Culture |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Masterclass “The Profession of Film Director: How Film Directing Is Taught at SPbGIKiT” and Creative Meeting with film director Artem Antonov, Head of the Department of Fiction Film Directing at the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television. | House of Culture |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Guided Tour and Lecture “The Salt of Shelota” Maria Vorozheikina | Meeting point: square |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Creative Meeting with Directors Participating in the Competition Programme Discussion of the Competition Films with the Audience | House of Culture |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Meeting with Filmmakers and Geographers. “Open Discussion: How Cinema Reflects the Reality of Rural Life” Moderator: Ksenia Averkieva, PhD in Geography, Associate Professor at HSE University, specialist in rural areas | Veranda |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Closing Film Screening “Suzdal: 1,000 Years and One Day”, dir. Sergey Debizhev | House of Culture |
| 18:30 – 19:00 | Concert Programme | Stage near the church |
| 19:30 – 20:30 | Festival Closing Ceremony | Stage near the church |
| 21:00 – 22:00 | Film Screening Best of Pechka Festival 2026 | Stage near the church |
Festival registration is required:
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