Films "Guslitsy. The Edge of the Soul" and "Luthier" to Be Screened at the Turgenev Library
On November 19, 2026, the I. S. Turgenev Library and Reading Room will host a screening of the films "Guslitsy. The Edge of the Soul" by director Darya Artyushkova and "Luthier" by Yannis Kostavaras. The event will be part of the autumn Film Marathon of the Vladimir Menshov Film Festival "Won Together" held at the Documentary Film Club under the motto "Culture – a Bridge Uniting Peoples".
"Guslitsy. The Edge of the Soul" is a documentary film about a self-taught book scribe from Kaliningrad. He comes to the Moscow region in search of like-minded people reviving an ancient art, but encounters an unexpected view of ancestral traditions. The film tells not only about the unique painting of Old Believer liturgical books, but also introduces viewers to people preserving a wide variety of folk crafts, and raises difficult questions about the ways of preserving and developing traditional culture today.
The film will be presented by the director Darya Artyushkova and producer Alexander Gundorov.
Darya Artyushkova is a documentary film director, participant and laureate of Russian and international film festivals. She graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Culture and the N.S. Mikhalkov Academy.
"Luthier" is a documentary film by Yannis Kostavaras (Greece), awarded the jury prize at the XXI International Vladimir Menshov Film Festival "Won Together".
In a small village in northern Greece, master luthier Vasilis Lazaridis creates some of the world's finest flamenco guitars. Dreaming of organizing the first international flamenco festival in his hometown, the film's protagonist sets off on a journey together with other artists, celebrating music, friendship and the power of following one's lifelong dream.
Yannis Kostavaras is a film director and editor of feature and documentary films, a member of the Hellenic Film Academy. His works have received awards at international film festivals.
The Film Marathon "Won Together" is a year-round educational project of the film festival of the same name. Within the framework of the film marathon, a systematic screening of the best examples of documentary cinema is organized at universities, colleges and many other venues across the country (more than 80 in total). The project is addressed to students of secondary and higher educational institutions, for whom cinema becomes the language of conversation about values, meanings and the affirmation of historical truth.
The organizers of the event are the World Peoples Assembly and the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio.
Start at 18:30 (Moscow time). Free admission.
Address: Russia, Moscow, Bobrov Pereulok, 6 (I.S. Turgenev Library).
Additional information is available on the official website of the World Peoples Assembly, on its VKontakte and Telegram accounts, and at media@world-assembly.org.