ECHO of the “Hero”
Traditionally, after the end of the Film Festival “Hero”, the Echo of the International Festival will begin: the selected films will be shown at cinemas all around the Krasnoyarsk Region until June, 30.
All film screenings are FREE!
The Echo Festival's screening program includes 13 films of different nominations. Among them, the best animated feature film for children and youth is "Heroes of the Arctic" (directed by Alexey Zamyslov, Olga Mayborodina, Russia, 2025, 101 min., 6+) and the documentary "Roman Kostomarov: Born Twice" (directed by Mikhail Shchedrinsky, Alexander Dozorets, Russia, 2024, 75 min., 12+), awarded a special diploma by the President of the Film Festival, Vladimir Grammatikov.
Film screenings will be held at more than 270 venues across the Krasnoyarsk Region.
For more details, please inquire in your local area.
| Title | Country, year | Length | Director/ Lead Cast | Synopsis of the film |
| Legends from the past (fantasy) | Russia, 2025 | 94 min | Ivan Sosnin / Alexander Yatsenko | A reporter from Yekaterinburg, on assignment for his editorial office, finds himself in a village lost in the taiga, where he hears an ancient legend about the Lord of the Forest. Upon returning home, he suddenly begins to see and hear this ancient spirit, who begs him to save endangered fantastical creatures. The journalist agrees, and together with his 12-year-old daughter, who has come to visit him from Moscow for the holidays, he sets off for a land virtually untouched by civilization. |
| The Five Sons of Mary (drama) | Russia, 2024 | 94 min | Pavel Ignatov / Olga Lomonosova, Vladislav Vetrov | A film based on real events from the Great Patriotic War. The story follows a woman from the village of Maslyanino, whose five sons returned from the front alive, sparking envy and accusations of witchcraft among her fellow villagers. |
| Arctic Heroes (animation) | Russia, 2025 | 100 min | Alexey Zamyslov, Olga Maiborodina | During excavations on Wrangel Island, a living baby mammoth is discovered, sleeping in a man-made cryogenic sarcophagus. The obsessed scientist leading the expedition decides to keep the discovery secret from the public and pass it off as the result of his cloning work. The baby mammoth is to be dissected to obtain material for cloning and research. Young schoolchildren come to the aid of the baby mammoth, accidentally discovering that it is intelligent. They help the baby mammoth escape and return to Wrangel Island to uncover the mystery of its origin. |
| Heigh Pushkin! (animation) | Russia, 2025 | 59 min | Ekaterina Gavryushkina | The young poet Alexander Pushkin, exiled to a boring village, suddenly finds himself in a whirlpool of incredible adventures. |
| Moonzy: Homecoming (animation) | Russia, 2024 | 78 min | Konstantin Bronzit | Moonzy Homecoming is a heartwarming preschool animation movie that follows the adventures of Moonzy, a fluffy and cute Moonchild who calls Earth's forest meadow home, along with his friendly insect friends. One day, Moonzy discovers a way to return to the Moon, his original home. However, his journey is not without challenges: Moonzy's best friend, the grasshopper Skip, is deeply upset that Moonzy wants to get back home. Old scientist Moth, who has a deep curiosity for lunar science, tries to interfere and prevent Moonzy's Homecoming for the sake of his research. Adding to the chaos are mischievous twin caterpillars, Woopsie and Poopsie, who create their usual mess wherever they go. As Moonzy embarks on his extraordinary journey back to the Moon, he must overcome a lot of obsta-cles and decide where his true home is. |
| Prince Ivan and the Gray Wolf 6 (animation) | Russia, 2024 | 85 min | Darina Schmidt, Konstantin Feoktistov | Ivan Tsarevich and his friends go to an exhibition of wonders from the entire fairy-tale world. |
| Animetro (animation) | Russia, 2025 | 7 min | Natalia Grofpel | Leopard Marina had already given up hope of finding her predator until one day the frantic pace of the metro made its own adjustments |
| Legends of Bolgar (animation) | Russia, 2025 | 64 min | Sergey Kiatrov | In the labyrinth of the ages, where the boundaries between past and future are blurred, young Timer embarks on an exciting and enlightening journey. Timer's path lies through a mysterious tunnel where he meets the great Time Keeper Alexander Schmidt. Together they recruit a team of guardians of history to protect the city of Bolgar, which is threatened by an ancient evil that seeks to destroy its greatness. The insidious genie is very powerful and his evil spells have penetrated different eras of the past. Here the fairy tale meets reality: on the way of heroes – archaeological monuments of Bolgar, real historical persons and events. |
| Follow the Sun | Russia, 2024 | 117 min | Leonid Kulibaba / Mikhail Boyarsky, Sergey Migitsko, Sergey Yankovsky | Students’ lives are turned upside down by the arrival of an eccentric teacher who isn’t afraid to challenge the strict rules. A touching comedy for the whole family starring Mikhail Boyarsky. |
| Knitting lesson (animation) | Russia, 2025 | 6 min | Victoria Maximova | The girl, observing her grandmother's skillful work and her wonderful creation, decided to learn to knit. But it was a struggle — the threads wouldn't obey, the tiger-balls of yarn tried to tangle every-thing, and the spider-knots and boa constrictors were annoying. Her grandmother's patience and wise only advice helped the girl overcome this difficult task. |
| Time to feed the pigeons (drama, short film) | Russia, 2025 | 11 min | Sergey Shilykovsky | The film's protagonist is a young student, Nikita. Every morning, his disabled grandmother watches from her window as her unfamiliar old man feeds pigeons. This daily ritual is so important to her that she even tells her grandson that she lives as long as it happens. But one day, the old man is taken to the hospital and disappears. |
| Three Heroes: Daily Tales (animation) | Russia, 2024 | 61 min | Ekaterina Salabay, Alexandra Shokha | Every day brings a new scheduled feat for the three bogatyrs. One day they must investigate the theft of the prince’s crown, the next they have to rescue their friends from a magical world of dreams, and then Julius the Horse and Alyosha clash in an epic battle of wits. There are no small adventures, and our bogatyrs are certainly not small either. So whether sooner or later, three exciting stories await you all at once. |
| Roman Kostomarov: Born Twice (biography, documentary) | Russia, 2024 | 75 min | Mikhail Shchedrinsky, Alexander Dozorets | The perfect athletic career – an Olympic champion, two-time World champion, three-time European and Russian champion in figure skating. However, in January 2023, a sudden illness nearly claimed Roman Kostomarov's life. He lay in a coma as doctors performed several surgeries, and were forced to amputate his limbs. Prognoses for recovery were less than one percent… yet he survived. Thanks to the love and support of family and friends, he never lost faith, embarking on the path to restoration. |
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