In Tula from 16 to 20 November will be held the Russian festival “Cinema and Music”
From 16 to 20 November 2026 in Tula and municipalities of the Tula region will be held III Russian festival "Cinema and Music"
From 16 to 20 November 2026 in Tula and municipalities of the Tula region will be held III Russian festival "Cinema and Music". With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the government of the region, it will again unite films in which music plays an important role in the development of the plot and artistic concept. The festival became the successor of the Tula forum “Smile, Russia!”.
The president of the festival is People's Artist of Russia, film director and winner of the Russian Government Award Alla Surikova. The organizer is JEMSTUDIA LLC with the assistance of the Government of the Tula Region and Governor Dmitry Milyaev.
The opening ceremony will take place on November 16, and the presentation of prizes is scheduled for November 19. Both ceremonies will be held in the Art Residence "DCJ". This year, the honorary award “For contribution to film music” will be awarded to composer Maxim Koshevarov, the author of music for more than 350 film and television works. The prize “For Contribution to Film Art” will be awarded to the People’s Artist of Russia, film director Alexei Uchitel, and the award “For Contribution to the Performing Arts” will be awarded to the People’s Artist of the RSFSR Alexander Mikhailov.
The main venue for film screenings will be the Luxor cinema. Films will also be available at the Mayski retro cinema and in 18 municipalities of the Tula region. In total, the audience will be presented with 46 films: family films, stories about musicians and composers, as well as new works by Russian animators.
The competition program is divided into three areas: feature, documentary and animated films. The films will be evaluated by a professional jury, which includes famous representatives of cinema and culture. The game program will be headed by producer Fedor Popov, documentary – directed by Ekaterina Golovnya, animation – composer Grigory Gladkov. For the first time, the jury of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia will join the festival.
The film competition included 17 films. Among them are the musical fairy tale “Buratino” directed by Igor Voloshin, the family paintings “I Will Be Captain” and “Forward to the Past”, as well as the biographical film “Vysotsky”. Unknown pages”.
The documentary program will combine 14 works. The audience will see films about the work of Alexander Bashlachev, the Russian ringing culture and the creation of the Thirteenth Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich. In the animation competition will present 15 paintings, including the continuation of familiar stories: “Koshchey”. The Secret of Living Water, Luntik. The far side of the moon and Smeshariki. Through universes.”.
A separate place in the program will take the work of the People's Artist of Russia, director Pavel Lungin. The festival will show his film “Wedding”, which was filmed in the Tula region, and a new picture “Four Lives of Peter Mamonov”. Pavel Lungin will also be awarded the honorary prize “For contribution to film art”.
In addition to film screenings, guests are waiting for creative meetings and musical events. In the Tula Regional Philharmonic Alexander Mikhailov will perform with the program “With Love for Russia”. Meetings with composers Maxim Koshevarov and Sergey Shustitsky are planned, and special screenings of documentaries with the participation of directors will be held at the Regional Scientific Library and the Tula Suvorov Military School.
Competition screenings will be held not only in the regional center: 18 sessions will be organized in municipal cinemas of the region. Thanks to this, the festival program will be available to residents of different settlements of the Tula region.
A detailed program of the III Russian Festival "Cinema and Music" was published by the organizers at the link.
