On October 31 — November 6, 2025, the XXII International Charity Film Festival "Radiant Angel" will be held at the Poklonka Cinema in Moscow.
The film festival is timed to coincide with the feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and National Unity Day and traditionally falls during the autumn holidays in many Moscow schools. The large program of the film festival for children, teenagers and family audiences includes 69 films, meetings with artists and creators of paintings are planned, a presentation of a book for family reading "Traces of Childhood" will take place, master classes and thematic screenings will take place.
Four halls of the Poklonka cinema, named after outstanding Soviet military leaders (Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Vasilevsky, Konev), will host the film festival in the year of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.
In total, 162 films of four genres from ten countries (Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan) are presented in the program of the film forum. These are full-length feature films, short feature films, documentaries, and animations. The best films of the past years are collected in the "Golden Collection" — a retrospective program of "Radiant Angel".
The jury of the film festival will be headed by Director General of the Mosfilm film concern, director and public figure Karen Shakhnazarov. The jury will include Dmitry Dyuzhev, Yana Poplavskaya, Veronika Ivashchenko, Ilya Glinnikov, other popular artists and famous directors.
Films by famous directors, meetings and discussions occupy a special place in the film program of the festival. Thus, at his creative meeting, People's Artist of Russia Fyodor Dobronravov will present the latest film directed by Tigran Keosayan, "The Seven Days of Pyotr Semenych" (Russia, 2025), based on a screenplay by Margarita Simonyan.
Archpriest Feodor Borodin, a father with many children, will tell you how to find a soulmate, enjoy each new life in the family, and preserve marital love for many years to come.
Anastasia Legoyda, a mother with many children and a producer of Foma Cinema, will present the series "Seven on Benches: The Art of the Impossible" (Russia, 2025) directed by Vera Vodinsky, dedicated to the beauty and feat of a large family.
The project "Russia without profanity" is presented by its author and director Olesya Dyachenko.
A creative meeting with director Vladimir Khotinenko will also take place within the framework of the film festival.
Admission to all screenings and events of the film festival is free upon pre-registration, which will open on October 15 on the Timepad platform in the Cinema section, as well as on the Radiant Angel Festival website.