Top 7 films about the Krasnoyarsk region

Do you still hesitate whether to travel around the Krasnoyarsk region? – We will surely persuade you that it is worth doing it!  Below there is our special selection of films about the Krasnoyarsk region, which will make you fall in love with the region and encourage to discover it again and again :)

► Documentary film “The Contemporaries” (2023). Directed by Anton Kiselev

The film that has become a real confession of love to the region’s capital! The story about what inspires the locals to love, to work, to create and just to live happily in one of the best cities on the Earth (exactly in the best one, we are sure!). 

It’s impossible yet to watch the film in free access, but if you’ve happened to be in Krasnoyarsk and want to know about it more from the local people – this is a great variant. Do not hesitate to write a message to the group HERE, and the access to the film will be organized for you :)

► Adventure film “The Yenisey Marathon” (2023). Directed by Vladimir Tarasov

Just imagine, 1100 kilometers on longboards through the Krasnoyarsk region, Khakassia  and Tyva along the federal road Р-257 “Yenisey”. It’s risky, difficult, dangerous, but POSSIBLE! Two friends, sportsmen Artyom Vladimirov and Sergey Bastrykin made such a trip. “The Yenisey Marathon” will tell  what they did it for and at what price they realized this unusual adventure.   

The film is accessible HERE.

► A film from the cycle “The Keepers of Siberia” – “Dixon. Forgotten in the Arctic” (2018). Directed by Denis Bevz

Dixon is the most northern village in Russia and it is situated in the Krasnoyarsk region. In the 80-s of the last century over 5 thousand people lived here, while now the population is just 300 people. Those rare romantic people, who are in love with the severe North, see the Arctic Ocean every day, live side by side with the polar bears and admire  the most wonderful Northern lights. What is the life in the Arctic like? – Go watching the film!

You can feel the atmosphere of Dixon HERE.

► Documental series “From Siberia with taste” (2023). Directed by Vladimir Tarasov

Krasnoyarsk has been associated for a long time not only with industry and nature, but with gastronomy as well!  This is here where people come to in order to organize a tour around the restaurants, enjoy the unique taste of the local cuisine and plunge into the atmosphere of the gastronomic capital beyond the Urals. You can also enjoy the Wild dinners in taiga and on the Putorana Plateau itself, gastronomic festivals and the invited chefs from all over the world, the real taste of local products and the whole galaxy of gastro events. You can learn how it all has begun firsthand from the leading restaurateurs, chefs and sommeliers of the city in the tree episodes of the series “From Siberia with taste”.

Watch the first episode HERE, the second one HERE, and the third one is at THE LINK.

► Documentary film “The Wings. The Gates of the High North” (2015). Directed by Elina Astrakhantseva

The film about the beginning period of the polar aviation history from 1925 to 1935. This is the time when the hydro aviation base of Glavmorsevput was built in Krasnoyarsk. The journalists of that time called it ‘The Gates of the High North”. The pilots, who  paved the first ways in the Arctic North, worked at the cartography of the huge spaces of Siberia and the Far East, used to save lost ships and just made a feat every day flying to the sky by imperfect (from the contemporary point of view) machines.

You can learn the history of Krasnoyarsk polar aviation HERE.

► Documentary film “Ploshchad Mira” (2023). Directed by Lidia Filippova

Everyone, who comes to Krasnoyarsk, notes one remarkable building in the very centre of the city. Not flamboyant, of a calm colour, psenting the signature “FREEDOM”, it attracts your eyes and makes you to study its history. Perhaps, you’ve guessed , that this the museum centre “Ploshchad Mira”. The stronghold for Krasnoyarsk modern art was designed by the head architect Areg Demirkhanov.  The influence of architecture on the cultural and many other aspects of Krasnoyarsk life is revealed exactly through the study of Areg Demirkhanov’s life and creative activity.  

You can watch the film HERE.

► Documentary film “The Frozen Time” (2015). Directed by Alexander Kalashnikov and Vladimir Vasiliev

The heroes of the stories are ordinary people of our days – fishermen and hunters from the Yenisey. Their life is warmth and cold, love and death, road and home. Here people love the exact word and build everything with their own hands – from the log construction to their own destiny. And the story of such people’s destinies are revealed by the writer and scriptwriter Mikhail Tarkovskiy (the grandson of the poet Aseniy Tarkovskiy and nephew of the director Andrey Tarkovskiy).

You can watch the film HERE.

Photo: Vkontakte group “Provincial Filmmaker”, Vkontakte group “Yenisey Marathon – adventure film», Studia 98, Gorod Prima.