FRIDAY, AUGUST 27

OUTDOOR PAVILLION CINEMA ON POKLONNAYA HILL
19: 00. Guests assembly. Red carpet.
19:30. Opening ceremony of the X Moscow International Film Festival "Budem Zhit" (Let's live).
Opening film : "On the question of the Dialectic of art perception, or Lost Dreams", a short film by Vladimir Menshov.
Followed by " The Workshop of Vladimir Menshov. Works of the VGIK and the Higher Courses of screenwriters and directors".

SATURDAY, AUGUST 28

OUTDOOR PAVILLION CINEMA ON POKLONNAYA HILL
16: 00-17: 00. Master classes from the  "TSEKH" film school:
Showing the best works of students (clips, short films).
17: 00-18: 00. Master class : "Fundamentals of film drama. What is a script, what are the genres, what is the conflict in the script".
18:00-22:00. Short Films. Non-stop. Winners of the Moscow Film Festival "Budem Zhit" (Let's live) of the past years. Meetings with the authors of films.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 29

OUTDOOR PAVILLION CINEMA ON POKLONNAYA HILL
Master classes from the "TSEKH" film school :
16:00-17:00. The history of cinema in 10 films. Why the history of cinema is not boring, and how to watch old works.
17:00-19:00. A mass study. Shooting a mass movie scene with the participation of the audience.
19:00-21:00. Non-competitive program of animated and short films.

CENTRAL HOUSE OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS
(Moscow, Vasilyevskaya str., 13)

GREAT HALL
Competition program of full-length feature films
16: 00. "Africa", dir. Daria Binevskaya, Russia, 2021, 54 min.
18: 00. "Best friends", dir. Beslan Terekbayev, Russia-India, 2020, 100 min.
20: 00. "Shambhala", dir. Artyk Suyundukov, Kyrgyzstan, 2020, 93 min.

DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER
(Moscow, Zubovsky blvd., 2, p. 7)

Documentary Film Competition Program
19: 00. "Garage People", dir. Natalia Efimkina, Germany, 2020, 96 min.
21:30. "Long Shot", dir. Vladimir Golovnev, Russia, 2021, 67 min.
"Aphrodite 2.0", dir. Arina Proshina-Kulik, Russia, 2021, 23 min.

MONDAY, AUGUST 30

CENTRAL HOUSE OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS
(Moscow, Vasilyevskaya str., 13)

WHITE HALL
Competition program of full-length feature films
18: 00. "Dream", dir. Maria Batova, Russia, 2021, 91 min.
20: 00. "Red Phantom", dir. Andrey Bogatyrev, Russia, 2021, 96 min.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 31

CENTRAL HOUSE OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS
(Moscow, Vasilyevskaya str., 13)

CONFERENCE HALL
15: 00. Open-talk: "From boomers to zoomers. The history of Russian web series".
WHITE HALL
Competition program of short feature films
16: 00. "Morpho", dir. Asya Shchuplova, Russia, 2020, 13 min.
"Kurchatov", dir. Alexander Korolev, Russia, 2020, 25 min.
"Sister", dir. Alina Dotsenko, Russia, 2021, 9 min.
"While it's rattling around", dir. Alexey Postnov, Russia-China, 2021, 30 min.

WHITE HALL
Competition program of full-length feature films
18: 00. "Call me Thrush", dir. Pavel Mirzoev, Russia, 2021, 94 min.
20: 00. "The Blockade diary", dir. Andrey Zaitsev, Russia, 2020, 118 min.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

CENTRAL HOUSE OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS
(Moscow, Vasilyevskaya str., 13)

CONFERENCE HALL
17: 00. Open-talk: "Promotion of impact content in Russia". Moderator: Nikita Tikhonov-Rau, Director of the "Third Sector" ANO Laboratory of Social Cinema ".

WHITE HALL
Competition program of short feature films
18:00. "The Birth of a tragedy from the sounds of music", dir. Raila Karimova, Russia, 2020, 8 min.
"The Blooper", dir. Sergey Tselikov, Russia, 2021, 13 min.
"The Apostle Herman", dir. Kim Druzhinin, Montenegro-Russia, 2021, 16 min.
"White heterosexual Male", dir. Gleb Ross, Russia, 2021, 15 min.
"Farewell Letter", dir. Roman Baranov, Russia, 2021, 15 min.

Competition program of full-length feature films
20: 00. "Archipelago", dir. Alexey Telnov, Mikhail Malakhov (Jr.), Russia, 2020, 104 min.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

CENTRAL HOUSE OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS
(Moscow, Vasilyevskaya str., 13)

CONFERENCE HALL
17:00. Round table: "The role of cinema in the development of electronic media".

SMALL HALL
19:00. Evening in memory of A. B. Stefanovich. Showing of the documentary "Flight of Margarita".
WHITE HALL
Competition program of short feature films
18:00.
"Apple Tree", dir. Olga Azhnakina, Russia, 2021, 16 min.
"Open up, it's Mom", dir. Nina Volova, Russia, 2020, 17 min.
"An ordinary story of ordinary happiness", dir. Daria Glazunova, Russia, 2021, 16 min.
"Two weeks", dir. Pyotr Demkin, Russia, 2020, 25 min.

20:00.
"A Kid", dir. Damir Miftakhov, Russia, 2021, 28 min.
"The Last Bell", dir. Vyacheslav Belomestnykh, Russia, 2021, 27 min.
"The Audition", dir. Sofia Ozerova, Russia, 2021, 13 min.
"Avako", dir. Ksenia Pchelintseva, Russia, 2021, 28 min.

DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER
(Moscow, Zubovsky blvd., 2, p. 7)

Competition program of documentary films

19: 00. "Katya and Vasya go to school", dir. Yulia Vishnevetskaya, Russia, 2020, 90 min.
21:30. "Slippery Road", dir. Gulnara Aitmamatova, Kyrgyzstan, 2020, 12 min.
"Come visit us, Mom", dir. Anna Artemyeva, Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Russia, 2020, 12 min.
"Mom's hair", dir. Alexey Evstigneev, Russia, 2021, 8 min.
"Watermelon seed", dir. Elena Kabanova, Russia, 2021, 32 min.
"Shadows of your childhood", dir. Mikhail Gorobchuk, Russia, 2020, 22 min.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

 "POKLONKA" CINEMA
(Moscow, Victory Square, 3)

HALL "ZHUKOV"
11: 00-15: 00. Moscow pitching of debutants.
Categories: "The Image of Moscow", "Military-historical cinema".
The prize fund is 1 million rubles.

CENTRAL HOUSE OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS
(Moscow, Vasilyevskaya str., 13)

GREAT HALL
19:00. Closing ceremony of the X Moscow International Film Festival "Budem Zhit" (Let's live).
Followed by – the closing film " Sashka. Diary of a Soldier", dir. Kirill Zaitsev, Russia, 2021, 38 min.