The Beat Weekend 2025 documentary film festival will take place in St. Petersburg. This year, the festival will gather the loudest premieres, new documentary works, and beloved hits from previous years. For ten years, the festival creators have been curating a program of the best documentary films, which have earned not only special recognition from audiences worldwide but also high praise from professional critics. Beat Weekend is the regional version of the international Beat Film Festival, held in dozens of Russian cities. Over 13 years, it has transformed into a large-scale cultural movement where documentary cinema becomes a way to talk about the present. The St. Petersburg program for 2025 promises to be particularly rich. It will include the best films from the summer Beat Film Festival, as well as projects by Russian directors, educational meetings, and secret screenings. This year’s program will unite films about David Lynch, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Parr, and other heroes of art, architecture, and music-people who have shaped the face of the times. Beat Weekend is not just a film festival, but a space for communication and idea exchange. Each event is accompanied by meetings with journalists, architects, artists, and representatives of the urban scene. The St. Petersburg version of the festival traditionally brings together film lovers, designers, musicians, and curators-all those who feel the rhythm of contemporary culture. Beat Weekend allows you to see documentary cinema as a living art, where instead of dry facts-there are human stories, emotions, and visual poetry. It’s a chance to see heroes who change our perception of the world. You can get acquainted with the festival program at several venues-at "Aurora", the Out Cinema space, and the "Lenfilm" cinema center. For more information about the festival, read on the Beat Weekend website. For even more reviews of premieres and film critiques, check out our website in the cinema section.