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+)
Follow the Sun (dir. Leonid Kulibaba, Russia, 2024, 117 min., 12+)
Legends from the past (dir. Ivan Sosnin, Russia, 2025, 103 min., 12+)
My Grandfather (dir. Svyatoslav Vlasov, Russia, 2025, 104 min., 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:

Arctic Heroes (dir. Alexey Zamyslov, Olga Mayborodina, Russia, 2025, 101 min., 6+)
Finnik 2 (dir. Denis Chernov, Russia, 2025, 87 min., 6+)
Oh, Pushkin! (dir. Ekaterina Gavryushkina, Russia, 2025, 58 min., 6+)
Moonzy: Homecoming (dir. Konstantin Bronzit, Russia, 2024, 75 min., 6+)
Prince Ivan and the Gray Wolf 6 (dir. Darina Schmidt, Konstantin Feoktistov, Russia, 2024, 75 min., 6+)
Three Heroes: Daily Tales (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:

T-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+)
Delivery man (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+)
Tiny Tom (dir. Léo Riehl, 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+)
Sun Fell and Rolled (dir. Alexandra Sokolovskaya, Russia, 2025, 20 min., 12+)
The Turtle (dir. Maurice Amiryan, Russia, 2024, 25 min., 0+)
Such a pretty face (dir. Ana Squilanti, Brazil, 2024, 19 min., 12+)
Take It Off (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 to get along (dir. Daria Bayborodina, Russia, 2024, 5 min., 6+)
Animetro (dir. Natalia Grofpel, Russia, 2025, 8 min., 12+)
The Box (dir. Alexandra Pavlova, Russia, 2025, 7 min., 12+)
Cylinder (dir. Alexander Rybin, Russia, 2025, 2 min., 0+)
Philosophical-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+)
Mothership (dir. Evgeny Golovin, Russia, 2024, 13 min., 16+)
Out there (dir. Evgeny Golovin, Alexander Afonasyev, Russia, 2024, 13 min., 12+)
The Birthplace of the Sun (dir. Denis Chernov, Russia, 2025, 5 min., 0+)
Grandpa is Sleeping (dir. Matei Branea, Romania, 2025, 13 min, 6+)
Knitting lesson (dir. Victoria Maksimova, Russia, 2025, 6 min., 0+)
The Final (dir. Alvaro Parrilla Alvarez, Germany, 2024, 15 min., 0+)
Selah (dir. Maya Lugo, Mexico, 2024, 5 min., 6+)
Dance 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+)
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+)
Cooks (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?”:

Movie like af life (dir. Valery Tsimanovich, Russia, 2025, 9 min., 6+)
Imperfect day (dir. Vasily Gladun, Russia, 2025, 14 min., 12+)
The New Girl (dir. Tatiana Marinicheva, Russia, 2025, 8 min., 6+)
Fear of Dogs (dir. Mael Brajon, Nolann Willaert, Esteban Campos, France, 2024, 3 min., 12+)
The Invisible (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+)
What the Hell! (dir. Elsa Borisyuk, Russia, 2025, 12 min., 6+)

Out of Competition Full-length Feature Films:

The tinderbox against the magic keyhole (dir. Andrzej Petras, Russia, 2025, 99 min., 6+)
Dragon Tears (dir. Tatiana Miroshnik, Russia, 2024, 107 min., 12+)
The Answer to Forever (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 Bicalho, 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+)
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+)
Indulge (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+)
The Tinkerings (dir. Amélie Voisin, France, 2024, 14 min., 6+)
To Novosibirsk (dir. Sasha Korbut, USA, 2025, 9 min., 0+)
Home front workers. 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+)
Unstable Connection (dir. Daria Shishova, Russia, 2025, 8 min., 0+)
I Don't Want to Go Home (dir. Ade Riadi Cen, 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+)
Uniquely ME (dir. Ayodele Elegba, Nigeria, 2025, 8 min, 16+)
Cloe (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. Rodrigo Rola, 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+)
Little Ones (dir. Daniil Voropai, Russia, 2024, 3 min., 0+)

Out-of-competition Documentary Films:

I Just Keep 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+)
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+)