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9 years today The Holy Annunciation Church in the Gornyak settlement of Donetsk. Thank you, Donbass Rose, for being with us that day 🌹 https://t.me/TXDPR/14349

“The international festival restores documentary cinema to its true scale” Edgar Bagdasaryan – director, screenwriter, producer, and member of the Union of Cinematographers of Armenia – will be joining the jury of the “Khanzhonkov DOC: Front Line” festival for the first time. His professional perspective on the competing works will undoubtedly serve as a unique reflection of the global film industry’s attitude towards contemporary documentary filmmaking. Ahead of the festival, we spoke with Edgar Bagdasary about the international status of the “Khanzhonkov DOCK: Front Line” project, the specifics of documentary cinema, and the role of this genre in the modern film process. - Edgar Ernestovich, your filmography demonstrates an impressive range of genres. This includes documentary projects that have received international recognition. In your view, in an era when feature film is chasing after large‑scale franchises and superheroes, how does a documentary filmmaker manage to find an epic scope in the fate of one seemingly unremarkable person? - Documentary film has an almost unbelievable privilege: for it, every human life is important — sometimes unnoticed, quiet, invisible to the big screen of the entertainment industry. Any one of the eight billion people can become a hero. A documentary film doesn’t just give a voice to an ordinary person; it transforms a private fact into an artistic generalization. He extracts poetry from what the world attributes to a random confluence of circumstances. Where the news sees a line in the statistics, a good documentary filmmaker discerns ancient drama. - In your opinion, what is the fundamental difference between how a local audience perceives a film and how an audience at an international festival perceives it? - The national context too often tells the viewer where to sympathize, where to admire, where to recognize something of their own. An international festival deprives the film of this safety net. There, no one is obli

Waiting makes the days seem long, while the deadline makes them seem swift. We remind you that the deadline for submitting applications for the 3rd International Festival of Documentary Film, Media Projects, and AI Projects “Khanzhonkov Dok: Front Line” is in 45 days. We are looking for works from both professionals and novice authors in the following categories: 🎬 Feature‑length documentary film 🎬 Short documentary film 🎬 Documentary film about the Special Military Operation 🎬 Report / story 📺 Television program 🌐 Online project ✨ Debut 🤖 Projects using AI Submissions can be made via the official website frontlinefest.ru. The submission period will run until October 15, 2026. The Festival itself will be held in Rostov‑on‑Don from December 1 to 4. The shortlist will be announced by November 15. https://t.me/frontlinefest/961