The 7th edition DOC SCREENINGS INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

This is a story about the unrivaled Master of jewelry art Ilgiz Fazulzyanov, who had exhibited his art works in the most famous world museums. This film tells us about the life journey of a young man from a small town, who became a true modern jewelry genius.

It's very likely that you are one of over five billion people using the internet on nearly 20 billion devices to shop, stream, research and communicate. But how many of us are aware of the technologies and people that made these connections possible? This film explores the stories of brilliant engineers and groundbreaking mobile technologies from Collins Radio, headquartered in Iowa, that helped shape the foundations of the modern internet. Through archival images and firsthand interviews, we trace the evolution of computing, networking, and radio communications through the mid to late 20th century. Ride along with the engineers on November 22, 1977, as the first internet message is sent using Collins technology—a breakthrough that paved the way for today’s mobile networks. Pioneers including Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, the “fathers” of TCP/IP, join Collins and Stanford Research Institute engineers to recall how curiosity, collaboration, a beer garden, a bread truck, a little luck and lots of determination laid the foundation for global connectivity.

In Perm, there is a Workshop where children with mental disabilities (autism, Asperger's syndrome) work. It is called "Bydetlyane." After visiting a theater, the participants of the Workshop wanted to stage a play on their own. However, some of them have difficulty speaking, and almost none of them can memorize even a short text due to their mental disabilities. Despite these challenges, under the guidance of the Workshop's founder, Katya, and using folklore practices, the children have successfully achieved their goals.

On one moonlit night in 1944, Soviet bombers turned Tallinn into a burning labyrinth of fire and ash— attacking the capital of a country that was not even at war. Through restored images and lived memory, the film reveals how a single night of imperial violence continues to echo as a warning to the world today.

Hidden Worlds dives into the planet’s most hidden places— wrecks, flooded caves, and lost mines from the Red Sea to the Atlantic, Norway, and beyond. Expert divers uncover forgotten history and breathtaking underwater worlds in this epic global adventure.

Through basketball, Native athletes confront their campus’s boarding school legacy.

When Jihan was six years old, her father flew to Cairo and never returned. Mansur Rashid Kikhia was the Foreign Minister of Libya, ambassador to the United Nations, and a human rights lawyer. After serving in Qaddafi's increasingly brutal regime, he defected from the government and became a peaceful opposition leader. Kikhia was obsessively loyal to his country but ultimately, his determination to reason with Qaddafi led to his disappearance from a hotel in Egypt in 1993. Jihan’s mother Baha Omary, a strong-willed Syrian-American artist, began searching for him, launching the family into an international political maze. Her mission to find justice brought her to the Libyan desert in the middle of the night, face to face with Qaddafi to negotiate her husband’s release. Yet it wasn’t until after the regime’s fall, 19 years later, that his body was found in a freezer near Qaddafi’s palace. My Father and Qaddafi takes the audience on a raw and reflective journey as Jihan pieces together a father she barely remembers, while discovering the troubled history and politics of Libya. Her journey starts from fading personal memories, leading to encounters with family members, her father’s peers, and historical archive footage. Hoping at first to uncover the truth, Jihan instead transforms the mystery into a curiosity that brings her closer to her father and her Libyan identity. She approaches politics not as a distant subject, but as a lived experience that penetrates into every human relationship - even between a little girl and her father. Mansur Rashid Kikhia was the former foreign minister of Libya, ambassador to the United Nations, and a human rights lawyer. In 1980, he defected from the Libyan government and became the peaceful opposition leader to Qaddafi’s regime. In 2012, his body was found frozen and fully intact near Qaddafi’s palace. For 19 years, Jihan and her family were living between two worlds: the political and the personal. While she and her siblings were busy memorizing dance routines and watching Disney movies at home, their mother, Baha Omary Kikhia, was navigating the often suspicious political agendas of the United States, Libya, and Egypt. Soon Baha, a Syrian-American artist, became an unexpected player in a dangerous political game with some of the most powerful political figures in the world. Her mission would eventually lead her to the Libyan Desert in the middle of the night, alone face to face with Qaddafi to negotiate her husband’s release. "Searching for Kikhia" is navigated from Jihan’s perspective as she tries to understand the country that both created her father and killed him. She approaches politics not as a distant subject, but as a lived experience that penetrates deeply into every human relationship - even between a little girl and her father.

«He lived in forced emigration for forty-three years. His name was banned in his homeland, and until the end of the century no one knew anything about him. Seventy years in complete oblivion!» Author's opinion - The current generation of viewers does not know the fate of the Buryat Valéry Inkijinoff, which is not inferior in scale to the tragic fate of Russian emigrants who left their homeland after the revolution of 1917. It was a mass exodus of the intelligentsia and aristocracy, and it was disastrous for the fate of many. The film is a portrait of a Buryat actor who, despite everything, achieved outstanding success in European cinema during emigration.