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29/08/2026. Cinema Night: A Series of Events
August 29, 2026:
The 11th All-Russian event Cinema Night took place in all regions of the Russian Federation and in a number of foreign countries with the support of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Federal Fund for Social and Economic Support of Domestic Cinema.
The event is timed to coincide with Russian Cinema Day, celebrated on August 27. The National Library of Karelia invited residents and visitors to its events.
"Alexei Balabanov – a director beyond the boundaries"
On August 19, the National Library of Karelia hosted a new meeting of the educational series Dialogue of Eras, dedicated to Alexei Balabanov, a director whose name is inextricably linked with the history of post-Soviet Russia.
Balabanov always had a keen sense of all life's processes and conveyed them in a way few others could. The characters in his films became iconic and shaped the worldview of entire generations: Brat ("Brother"), Brat 2 ("Brother 2"), Mne ne bolno ("It Doesn't Hurt Me"), Gruz 200 ("Cargo 200"), Zamok ("The Castle") and Zhmurki ("Dead Man's Bluff").
The program participants noted that Alexei Balabanov's films remain relevant today because the questions he posed to society thirty years ago have never been definitively answered.
"Charlie Chaplin: The Great Comedian and Tragedian of the 20th Century"
On August 27, the large reading room of the National Library of Karelia was filled with the atmosphere of classic cinema. The Literary Thursday project was dedicated to one of the most brilliant and beloved masters of world cinema – Charlie Chaplin.
The image of Charlie Chaplin has won the love of audiences around the world. This love was a reciprocal response to the actor's own great love for people, which colours his comedies with lyrical, warm, and deeply soulful tones. The discussion at Literary Thursday touched on topics that remain relevant today: the nature of humour, the artist's right to a civic stand, and the phenomenon of contemporary directors returning to Chaplin's legacy.
On August 29, the National Library of Karelia invited viewers to a video lecture entitled "Alexander Rou: The First Soviet Storyteller." Alexander Rou's first fairy-tale monsters were created without the use of computer graphics or special effects, and the "magical transformations" on screen were the result of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the film crew.