For the first time in Moscow: The Premiere of the Documentary Film "Crocus. The Unbroken" will open the Film Festival "Won Together"
On September 14, 2026 in Moscow, the Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad will host the Solemn Opening Ceremony of the XXI Vladimir Menshov Documentary Film Festival
The event will be attended by:
Andrey Belyaninov – Secretary General of the World Peoples Assembly;
Valery Ruzin – President of the Film Festival “Won Together”;
Sergey Lomakin – Director of the Directorate of Special Projects of OTR;
Gleb Shagun – CEO of ANO "Integration";
Peter Kuznik - professor of history at the American University in Washington and Paris, director and founder of the Nuclear Studies Institute in the USA.;
Yuri Polyakov – writer, screenwriter;
Boris Karadzhev – director, screenwriter, head of the documentary film directing workshop at VGIK;\
Members of the jury
and many others.
Guests will also watch the premiere screening of the film "Crocus. The Unbroken" directed by Vladimir Khrapovitsky — a story about the events at the "Crocus City Concert Hall" on March 22, 2024. The main characters of the film are the participants of the tragedy and those who came to the aid of the victims.
The organizers of the film festival are the World Peoples Assembly, the Sochi City Administration, the "Integration" production center, the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio and the company "Intellectual Resource". The Festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the World Public Assembly.
Partners: The Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, the Regional Cinema Support Fund, the Film School project, the Sochi Institute of the RUDN University, the Center for Creative Industries of the International Research Institute of Management Problems, the "Memory of Victories" Foundation.
Media partners: Publishing house "Arguments and facts", TV channels OTR, MIR, VGTRK "Vesti Sochi", IA "InterMedia", portals "Sochi News", "Culture. Literary newspaper", "Utro.ru", IPQuorum, "TV workers", "Network of history", Moviestart.
Additional information is available on the official websites of the Film Festival and the World Peoples Assembly, as well as at media@world-assembly.org.
Accreditation: media@world-assembly.org.
The photo archive is provided by the press service of the film festival.