Кассета с родительской полки (3)

Festival start: 01 May 2026      Festival end: 03 May 2026

Cassette from the Parent Shelf is an international youth film festival born from a free and generational spirit.

It offers young creators a platform to present honest, bold, and sometimes unconventional works.

Blending nostalgic aesthetics with new voices, it explores identity, memory, and the present moment.

More than a competition, it is a meeting space where young cinema finds its audience and community.

• Grand Prix of the film festival
• Best Feature Movie
• Best Documentary
• Best Experimental Film
• Best Animation
• Audience Prize

1. The Film Festival accepts participation of feature, documentary, experimental and animated films.

2. The film must be finished no earlier than January 1, 2024.

3. The film festival is open to independent filmmakers, as well as students from Russian higher education institutions who are studying for specialized programs, bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and training of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel in graduate school aged 18 to 40. (inclusive, at the start of the film festival).

4. The film festival accepts films with a time frame of up to 35 minutes. There are no restrictions on the minimum duration of films.

5. The films presented at the film festival must not contain propaganda of violence, ethnic, racial and religious intolerance or insult to a person’s moral feelings.

6. The submitted film can only participate in one of the approved nominations, the choice of which is made by the participant themselves when filling out the application:

• Feature film competition;
• Documentary film competition;
• Experimental film competition;
• Animation contest.

7. The Film Festival accepts for consideration no more than two films from one participant within a single nomination.

8. Application is not a guarantee of participation in the program