Kazan for the fifth time will host a documentary film festival about music and a new culture Beat Weekend

From  October 4 to 8,  15  cities of Russia will host a documentary film festival about music and a new culture Beat Weekend, a regional version of the Moscow Beat Film Festival. This year, for the first time, not only the main movie hits from the Moscow program will go on tour, but also special guests of the festival - experts and filmmakers with lectures and discussions, as well as musicians with concerts and DJ sets.

Beat Weekend is held simultaneously in 15 cities of Russia, this year for the fifth time, in its program - the six most important and sought-after films from the summer program of the Beat Film Festival. The task of the project is to enable young people across the country to see a new documentary about cultural phenomena and heroes that are interesting and close to them.

In Kazan at the Center for Contemporary Culture "Smena" journalist and editor of Meduza website Alexander Gorbachev will give a lecture on how  documentary  genre in  films, books and journalistic texts  has gained  victory.

Also, in the film program Beat Weekend 2017, which will be held at the Mir cinema, there are six movies:

Octber 4, Wed

20-00 - Rave in Iran, dir. Suzanne Myers

October 5, Thu.

20-00 - When I think of Germany at night, dir. Romuald Karmakar

6 October, Fri

20-30 - Independence Day, dir. Morten Troviak

October 7, Sat

18-00 - I'm Gagarin,  dir. Olga Darfi

20-00 - All these sleepless nights, dir. Michal Marchak

October 8, Sun.

18-00 - Hipe, dir. Doug Pray

20-00 - Rave in Iran, dir. Suzanne Myers

The full program of Beat Weekend 2017 and the schedule of shows are available on the festival's website www.beatweekend.ru from September 1.