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 The main goal of the World Champions Chess Film Festival is to make our filmmakers happy. We are ready to work days and nights to achieve this goal. If the screening goes well, we can recommend that you screen your film in the Russian theater network and split the ticket box profits with us and the theater. World Champions Chess Film Festival was established to showcase some of the best award-winning independent feature length and short films from all over the world.

We have combined two art forms in one: chess and cinema.
The best films about chess are shown and will be shown at our chess film festivals, which take place 6 times a year.
This is a real event taking place in Russia. The event was held this month in 5-6 August, 2023
Films about Chess were screened for 2 days in 3 halls on 4 screens from morning till evening.

This are the names of the awarded films which were shown at the festival:
Documentary "Formula of Success. Chess" (Film 1) - Best Documentary about Success in Chess
Documentary "W. Steinitz" (Film 1) - Best Documentary
Documentary "W. Steinitz" (Film 2) - Best Documentary
Documentary "W. Steinitz" (Film 3) - Best Documentary
Documentary "Magnus" - Special Award
Feature film "World Champion" - Best Feature
Feature Film "Pawn Sacrifice" - Best International Film
Mikhail Botvinnik. "Autumn of a Chess Player" [Documentary] (1990)
Movie "Artek Adventures" 6+ - Best Children film
Documentary "AlfaGo" - Best Asian Film
Top secret. "Mysteries of Chess Kings" (2005) (Movie I, II) - Best Director
The film "Zugzwang. Sergei Karyakin." The Complete Biography of a Chess Champion. - Best ActorL

The Russian Film Festival was held in St.Petersburg (Russian) for two days in August 5-6th 2023.

In this screening there were many Russian and International films screened and awarded. We are also proud to announce that firs time in the history there was a Chinese screening sector.

This are the screened films from China:

Director: QIJI Title: STRANGE LAND

Director: LIU JIANGYONG Title: NO ONE ANSWERS

Director: XU JIANMING Title: TOGETHER AGAIN

Director: LANTIAN Title: FADING AWAY

Director: TAN SHIHAN Title: SECOND BIRTH

Director: WANG WEIJIA Title: XIANGLAO

They attracted many Russian people. Please find some videos and photos of this Chinese screening in our archive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KpYrw4OgCqAYaCaLStQ0BG-PAxgtY0qz?usp=sharing

Submit your work to the next session now through the FilmFreeway: 

Our system includes several theatres located in the biggest Russian cities like: Moscow and St.Petersburg. We are working with the biggest Russian film screening networks.