Top 5 movies and TV series of the “Bridge” film festival according to PEOPLETALK

During the Bridge Film Festival, you were able to see many movies and TV series released in 2024. These included both military-historical films and films touching on the relationship between man and technology, and, of course, youth dramas and fairy tales. We selected the most interesting projects according to The Fashion Vibes.

By the way, you can find the list of winners of the “Bridge” movie award here.

“110”, direction. Ilya Mikheev

Ilya Mikheev’s work “110” with Elizaveta Boyarskaya and Polina Tsyganskaya was awarded the “Best feature film” award at the “Bridge” film festival. The series tells the difficult relationship between lawyer mother Victoria and her high school daughter Alice. After her classmate’s suicide due to bullying at an elite art school, Alice has lost her voice due to shock and wants to at least somehow atone for the guilt of the deceased’s mother, but the school administration wants to cover up a story that could harm them. reputation. And her mother decides to speak up in defense of one of the instigators of the bullying. Will Alice be able to reach her mother and prove that not everything is solved with just money and connections?

“Mammoths”, dir. Mikhail Chistov and Ivan Sosnin

Perhaps the sweetest and most touching movie about the relationship between different generations. Yuri Stoyanov plays a retiree who falls victim to phone scammers. While his daughter Yulia (Maryana Spivak) and her ex-police husband are looking for intruders, Nikolai Nikolaevich is forced to move into her house with his granddaughter Polina (Elizaveta Ishchenko). Not wanting to be a burden, the man decides to start his own research and asks Polina to help him understand modern technology. The young girl, who is initially a “technological giant”, later warms up to her grandfather and begins to help him. Together they will find themselves in funny situations more than once and help each other.

“June Pelin”, dir. Yulia Bocharova

Yulia Bocharova’s “June Wormwood” won the “Uncontrollability” award in the “Best Documentary Film” category. Although the film is perceived as fiction, it is based on real events and the narration comes from the point of view of the hero of the Great Patriotic War, Viktor Gladyshev, who is now 91 years old. The director tells his story from the perspective of an eight-year-old boy named Vitya, who survived the German occupation during the Battle of Moscow. This is a touching story about courage and the fight for truth.

“Love of the Soviet Union”, dir. Nikita Vysotsky, Ilya Lebedev and Dmitry Iosifov

Visually beautiful film-drama “Love for the Soviet Union” about the relationship of the country’s leading actress (Angelina Strechina) with the two main men in her life: the first was a heroic pilot (Kirill Kuznetsov) whom she could not. forget after death, and the second was a playwright (Roman Vasiliev) who raised her and experienced true love. Although the creators deliberately confuse the facts of the biography, the prototypes of the heroes are the Soviet actress Valentina Serova and her husbands – pilot Anatoly Serov and poet Konstantin Simonov. Here we talked about how the film came to be.

“Finist. The Last Hero”, dir. Dmitry Dyachenko

If “Brownie Kuzya” (the premiere will take place on December 19) opened the “Bridge” film festival in 2024, then for the closing of the program they saved another fairy tale – “Finist. The Last Hero” (expected to premiere on January 1, 2025). Thus, the atmosphere of magic is guaranteed.

The story tells about the hero Finist Yasny Sokol (Kirill Zaitsev), defender of Belogorye. Together with his faithful assistant (Sergei Lavygin), he performs feats for the honor of his beloved self. He is not interested in marriage and a quiet life next to the Russian stove, so he is always on the move. He is very selective and does not accept work that does not suit his reputation. One day, he rejects a trivial request from Yaga (Yulia Peresild); This is something he will regret. Instead of rescuing the red maiden (Kristina Stroiteleva) with other heroes from a castle guarded by a monster, he fools everyone and goes alone, unwilling to share the laurels of victory. But the adventure takes an unexpected turn and robs him of his strength. Finist survives, but is captured along with his comrade and Yaga by a strange eastern inventor (Fyodor Dobronravov). Now he has to learn to cooperate in order to get out.