The shortlist of the IV International Film Festival for Children and Youth "Hero" has been announced

109 films from 27 countries will take part in the Film Festival, which will be held from May 18 to 22 in the Krasnoyarsk Region.

The competition program includes 61 works of the best feature, animation and documentary films.

27 participating countries from all continents will present their films at the Film Festival: Armenia, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, the USA, Croatia, Chile, South Korea.

The authors will present most of the full-length works in person, with screenings taking place in Krasnoyarsk, Norilsk, Divnogorsk, Uyara and Kuragino.

Admission to all the events of the film festival is FREE!

The founder of the Hero Film Festival is the Ministry of Culture of the Krasnoyarsk Region, the organizer of the KGAUK "Yenisei Kino".

See you at the brightest cultural event of the year!

Film Festival shortlist:

Full-length Feature Film Competition:

My Wild Friend (dir. Anna Kurbatova, Russia, 2024, 99 min., 6+)
Philip's Rules (dir. Roman Kosov, Russia, 2024, 86 min., 6+)
Stick to the Sun (dir. Leonid Kulibaba, Russia, 2024, 117 min., 12+)
Legends of Our Ancestors (dir. Ivan Sosnin, Russia, 2025, 103 min., 12+)
My Grandfather (реж. Святослав Власов, Россия, 2025, 104 мин., 12+)
The Five Sons of Mary (dir. Pavel Ignatov, Russia, 2024, 94 min., 16+)
Buddies and the Heir (directed by Marcelo Galvao, Brazil, 2026, 86 min., 12+)

Animated Full-length Feature Film Competition:

Heroes of the Arctic (dir. Alexey Zamyslov, Olga Mayborodina, Russia, 2025, 101 min., 6+)
Finnik 2 (dir. Denis Chernov, Russia, 2025, 87 min., 6+)
Heigh! Pushkin! (dir. Ekaterina Gavryushkina, Russia, 2025, 58 min., 6+)
Luntik. Returning home (dir. Konstantin Bronzit, Russia, 2024, 75 min., 6+)
Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf 6 (dir. Darina Schmidt, Konstantin Feoktistov, Russia, 2024, 75 min., 6+)
The three Bogatyrs. Not a day without a feat (dir. Ekaterina Salabai, Alexandra Shokha, Russia, 2024, 65 min., 6+)
Legends of Bolgar (directed by Sergey Kiatrov, Russia, 2025, 65 min., 12+)

Short feature film competition:

Tyrannosaurus Rex (dir. Timur Yunisov, Russia, 2025, 25 min., 12+)
Shchedrik (dir. Daria Artyushkova, Russia, 2025, 14 min., 6+)
Rabbit Race (dir. Alexander Shmakov, Maxim Karateev, Russia, 2025, 21 min., 12+)
Trezorka (dir. Ilya Severov, Russia, 2025, 29 min., 12+)
The Deliveryman (dir. Dinara Abdrashitova, Russia, 2025, 15 min., 12+)
Malyutka (dir. Dmitry Pasichnyuk, Russia, 2025, 11 min., 0+)
Astronomers (dir. Dmitry Pasichnyuk, Russia, 2025, 14 min., 6+)
Baby Tom (dir. Leo Riel, France, 2025, 10 min., 0+)
Eat, eat, eat! (dir. Kathleen Tio, Indonesia, 2025, 15 min., 0+)
In the Shadow of a Bamboo Basket (dir. Sujan Lamjel, India, 2025, 23 min., 16+)
The First Lesson (dir. Maxim Bobkov, Russia, 2025, 8 min., 6+)
The sun fell and rolled (dir. Alexandra Sokolovskaya, Russia, 2025, 20 min., 12+)
Turtle (dir. Maurice Amiryan, Russia, 2024, 25 min., 0+)
Such a beautiful face (dir. Ana Squilanti, Brazil, 2024, 19 min., 12+)
Take Off the Mask (dir. Sergio Tovar Uribe, Canada, Colombia, Hungary, 2025, 10 min., 6+)

Animated Short Film Competition:

Son (dir. Zhanna Bekmambetova, Russia, 2025, 20 min., 0+)
Habitat, OR how talented people get along (dir. Daria Bayborodina, Russia, 2024, 5 min., 6+)
Animetro (dir. Natalia Grofpel, Russia, 2025, 8 min., 12+)
Box (dir. Alexandra Pavlova, Russia, 2025, 7 min., 12+)
Cylinder (dir. Alexander Rybin, Russia, 2025, 2 min., 0+)
Philosophical and physical model of a tea bag (dir. Natalia Shulga, Russia, 2025, 5 min., 12+)
Once upon a time there was a mountain (dir. Natalia Abramova, Russia, 2025, 5 min., 0+)
Mother of the Ship (dir. Evgeny Golovin, Russia, 2024, 13 min., 16+)
On the Other Side (dir. Evgeny Golovin, Alexander Afonasyev, Russia, 2024, 13 min., 12+)
Homeland of the Sun (dir. Denis Chernov, Russia, 2025, 5 min., 0+)
Grandpa is Sleeping (dir. Matej Branea, Romania, 2025, 13 min., 6+)
Knitting lesson (dir. Victoria Maksimova, Russia, 2025, 6 min., 0+)
Final (dir. Alvaro Parrilla Alvarez, Germany, 2024, 15 min., 0+)
Sela (dir. Maya Lugo, Mexico, 2024, 5 min., 6+)
Dancing Again (dir. Charon Chong, Singapore, 2025, 14 min., 12+)
Leonid Shvartsman. A Tale of a Boy and an Old Town (dir. Ekaterina Sharomet, Belarus, 2024, 26 min., 6+)

Documentary Film Competition

Roman Kostomarov: Born Twice (dir. Mikhail Shchedrinsky, Alexander Dozorets, Russia, 2024, 75 min., 12+)
The Silent Battle (dir. Vikak Baskoro, Indonesia, 2024, 12 min., 6+)
Feel (dir. Lilia Dmitrik, Russia, 2024, 53 min., 12+)
The Way (dir. Svetlana Muzychenko, Russia, 2025, 54 min., 0+)
Breadwinners (dir. Alexey Barykin, Russia, 2024, 22 min., 12+)
Nadia, go ahead! (dir. Anastasia Mulyarova, Belarus, 2025, 30 min., 12+)
June Wormwood (dir. Yulia Bocharova, Russia, 2025, 79 min., 12+)

Special children's nomination “Who is your hero?”:

Cinema as in life (dir. Valery Tsimanovich, Russia, 2025, 9 min., 6+)
An ImPerfect Day (dir. Vasily Gladun, Russia, 2025, 14 min., 12+)
The New Girl (dir. Tatiana Marinicheva, Russia, 2025, 8 min., 6+)
I'm Afraid of dogs (dir. Mael Brajon, Nolan Villard, Esteban Campos, France, 2024, 3 min., 12+)
The Invisible Man (dir. Maria Morozova, Russia, 2025, 6 min., 6+)
The Elephant Equation (dir. Eva Pelepets, Russia, 2025, 7 min., 6+)
Marathon – the path to a dream (dir Daniela Spindler, Russia, 2025, 7 min., 6+)
The Pond (dir Elizaveta Kolmakova, Russia, 2025, 5 min., 0+)
Damn it! (dir. Elsa Borisyuk, Russia, 2025, 12 min., 6+)

Out of Competition Full-length Feature Films:

Flint against the Magic Well (dir. Andrzej Petras, Russia, 2025, 99 min., 6+)
Tears of the Dragon (dir. Tatiana Miroshnik, Russia, 2024, 107 min., 12+)
The Answer to Eternity (dir. Zheng Yunchang, China, 2025, 83 min., 16+)
Ivan Semenov. The First Kiss (dir. Kirill Sedukhin, Russia, 2025, 75 min., 6+)
New Year's Letter (dir. Irina Gobozashvili, Russia, 2025, 85 min., 16+)

Out-of-competition Animated Feature Films:

Tugan Batyr (dir. Natalia Nilova, Russia, 2025, 49 min., 0+)
Clarice's Dream (dir. Guto Bicaglio, Fernando Gutierrez, Brazil, 2023, 83 min., 6+)
Dreamland (dir. Mohsen Enayati, Iran, 2025, 84 min., 6+)

Out of Competition Short Feature Films:

The Note (dir. Pavel Ignatov, Russia, 2025, 15 min., 12+)
The Soul (dir. Antonina Abramova, Russia, 2025, 7 min., 16+)
Thank you, Father! (dir. Alice Mozheyko, Russia, 2025, 16 min., 12+)
Time to feed the pigeons (dir. Sergey Shilykovsky, Russia, 2025, 11 min., 12+)
Piano lessons (dir. Guzel Akhmetshina, Russia, 2024, 22 min., 0+)
Victory (dir. Anna Papusheva, Russia, 2025, 26 min., 6+)
Larra (dir. Alexey Gorlachev, Maxim Bondarenko, Russia, 2024, 13 min., 16+)
Warmth of hands (dir. Medina Davletova, Kazakhstan, 2025, 22 min., 12+)
Bottles (dir. Yassine El Idrissi, Morocco, 2024, 18 min., 12+)
Love (dir. Alice Hakobyan, Armenia, 2024, 6 min., 0+)
Trivia (dir. Amélie Voisin, France, 2024, 14 min., 6+)
To Novosibirsk (dir. Sasha Korbut, USA, 2025, 9 min., 0+)
Serving in the Rear. Krasnoyarsk. (dir. Vladimir Tarasov, Russia, 2025, 32 min., 6+)

Out of Competition Animated Short Films:

And then I Met Your Mother (dir. Maria Savelyeva, Russia, 2024, 5 min., 6+)
The connection is unstable (dir. Daria Shishova, Russia, 2025, 8 min., 0+)
I Don't Want to Go Home (dir. Ade Riadi Price, Indonesia, 2025, 11 min., 0+)
The Wing Shop (dir. Andrea Leon, Gabriela Rojas Bustos, Sasha Schmit, Spain, Chile, Mexico, France, 2025, 5 min., 6+)
I'm Buggy (dir. Salma Penelope Parra Scholz, Germany, 2024, 7 min., 6+)
The Unique Me (dir. Ayodele Elegba, Nigeria, 2025, 8 min., 16+)
Chloe (dir. Angelo Luca Bianchino, Italy, 2025, 11 min., 6+)
The Ordinary Man (dir. Chu Yejin, South Korea, 2025, 8 min., 0+)
Steps (dir. Nela Gluhak, Croatia, 2024, 1 min., 6+)
The five-second rule (creative association "Invisible Friends", Russia, Armenia, 2025, 2 min., 0+)
Flower City (dir. Rola Rodrigo, Portugal, 2025, 8 min., 12+)
Dream (dir. Semiramis Mamata, Greece, 2025, 5 min., 0+)
The series "Champions". Episode "Bon appetit" (dir. Maxim Kulikov, Danil Strizhov, Pavel Nikiforov, Russia, 2024, 7 min., 6+)
The series "The Adventures of Petya and the Wolf". Episode "The Case of the Demiurge and the Magic Stylus" (dir. Vladimir Li, Russia, 2023, 11 min., 6+)
The series "Umka". Episode "A Special day" (dir. Dmitry Demidov, Russia, 2024, 7 min., 0+)
The TV series “Well, Just You Wait! Vacation”. Episode "Night at the Museum" (dir. Elena Polyakova, Russia, 2024, 7 min., 6+)
The series "Prostokvashino". Episode "Approach" (dir. Anastasia Makhlina, Russia, 2024, 7 min., 0+)
The series "The Orange Cow". Episode "Movie" (dir. Alina Zhurakovskaya, Russia, 2024, 6 min., 0+)
Crumbles (dir. Daniil Voropai, Russia, 2024, 3 min., 0+)

Out-of-competition Documentary Films:

I Keep on Dancing (dir. Natalia Fefelova, Galina Goldfeld, Russia, 2025, 60 min., 12+)
A Little Further Beyond the Horizon (dir. Elena Orlova, Russia, 2025, 71 min., 6+)
The Masters (dir. Yulia Selikhova, Russia, 2025, 11 min., 6+)
A Fine Line (dir. Daniela Grigorenko, Russia, 2025, 25 min., 0+)
Ice Captains (dir. Pavel Fattakhutdinov, Russia, 2023, 51 min., 12+)
Enemy Number Three (dir. Vladimir Sumashedov, Russia, 2024, 31 min., 12+)
Let's listen (dir. Ivan Bormotov, Russia, 2025, 18 min., 0+)
Generation of Heroes (dir. Ivan Semikletov, Russia, 2026, 20 min., 12+)