Beat Film Festival 2023

GES-2 presents films from Russia’s Beat Film Festival, dedicated to contemporary culture and including an international programme as well as a national competition for young documentary filmmakers.

V–A–C Foundation is partnering with the Festival’s national competition for the third time in 2023. This year GES-2 will host a programme of Russian cinema including premiere screenings of the competition films, and the competition winner will receive a special prize from the House of Culture. GES-2 Kino cinema will also show several films from the Festival’s international programme, with subjects including David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, The Zombies and the nature of sound.

Beat Film Festival has been a fixture in Moscow since 2010 and has become a city-wide event bringing new films about music, contemporary art, media, street culture, fashion, sport and new technologies to people in the Russian capital. The Festival programme includes Russian premieres of outstanding films from major world film festivals, as well as a range of evening events and meetings with film directors, musicians and other representatives of contemporary culture.

The national competition has been an important part of Beat Film Festival since 2015. Its objective is to support documentary cinema in Russia and help young filmmakers who want to explore new domestic culture and open it up to a wider audience. Any author can submit their work for consideration by the Festival committee. The films must be shot mainly in Russia or by a predominantly Russian crew, and the Festival screening must be the work’s Russian premiere.