On January 29th, at the Twelfth Kolkata International Children’s Film Festival, ROSKINO, supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, will present five Russian films as part of the Russian Film Days India 2026.
Kolkata International Children’s Film Festival presents fiction, animated, documentary and educational films from all over the world to wide children and teenagers’ audience to broaden the horizon for young viewers. This year, the festival will be held for 12th time across eight venues throughout the city of Kolkata.
The Russian film program at the festival:
- The Big Trip 3: Race Around the World (2024, directed by Vasily Rovensky)—the family-audience franchise continued. After his two big adventures, Mick-Mick the Bear dreams of having calm and predictable life surrounded by his family and bees. But his dream is hopeless. The long-awaited new addition to the family presents a new problem: the silly stork brings the wrong baby… again! To fix this, Mick-Mick launches on a new journey. But this time it’s not going to be that easy.
- Detective Chirp & the Golden Beehive (2022, directed by Grigory Vozhakin) is an animated story that won the next generation’s hearts both in Russia and abroad. The residents of the Honey Valley are preparing for their favorite holiday: the Town Day, when a unique artefact is displayed for everyone to see: the Golden Beehive. The legend has it that it was discovered by the founders of the Honey Valley, and it is said that the town will be showered by thousands of misfortunes if the hive disappears. Right before the holiday, the hive is stolen. And the main suspect is Chirp the Squirrel, Detective Sofi’s assistant. Chirp and his friends are now to unravel the case, find the true thief, and return the Golden Beehive, restoring peace in the Valley.
- The Dino Family (2025, directed by Maxim Volkov) is yet another successful show beloved by foreign guests of Russian film festivals. Schoolboy Phil Dino’s life is spiraling downward: his classmates laugh at him, girls don’t notice him, while his father embarrasses him with the family heritage: a paleontology museum forgotten by everyone. But it all flips around when Phil accidentally activates a portal to the Mesozoic. Now, he’s in for a dino challenge in the jungles in the company of a chatty velociraptor, his helicopter father, and the girl he likes at school. It seems that the time has come for Phil to realize that belonging to the Dino family is not so bad.
- Don’t Mess with Baba Yaga (2025, directed by Alexander Voytinsky) is a kind and magical comedy starring Svetlana Khondchenkova. When ten-year-old Petya gets a new nanny—strange, grumpy, yet incredibly charming—he’s fast to grasp that she’s not like everyone else. She became a nanny to go undercover, while she is actually Baba Yaga, the legendary magician who lost her mortar and hid among people. Now, it’s up for Petya alone to help her to get her magic powers back. In return, she teaches the boy to fly. Not just in her mortal—in his everyday life, too.
- Finnick 2 (2025, directed by Denis Chernov) the continued story about the charming house boogie Finnick and his friends’ adventures. It’s been a year since Finnick and Christina successfully prevented a threat to the city. An absurd accident makes Finnick lose invisibility, which puts the whole house boogie kind’s existence in jeopardy. Besides, a dangerous hunter named Eugene is now after Finnick himself. The friends are to go on an incredible journey to find a magical staff that can help them fix everything.
It has become an annual tradition for ROSKINO, with support from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, to conduct two-way events—big-scale Russian Film Festivals in India and Indian Film Festivals in Russia—and organize Russian film screenings and Russia’s regular participation at Indian festivals.
For example, on December 5th to 7th, New Delhi witnessed
the big-scale Russian Film Festival, dedicated to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin’s visit to India, with its full houses of viewers who came to watch outstanding modern films, Q&A sessions with filmmakers and stars, and a business program.
Moreover, in December 2025, the Indian capital hosted the screening of films that participated in the Diamond Butterfly Open Eurasian Film Award organized by the Russian Culture Fund with support the Ministry of Culture of Russia and participation of ROSKINO.
