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The fourth edition of the international festival Artdocfest Echo in Paris will screen a selection of urgent and powerful documentary films
from East Europe and Central Asia. 2000 meters to andriivka
mon
05/10
19:30
the long way home
tue
06/10
20:00
Welded together
wed
07/10
20:00
the dogs
thu
08/10
18:45
Mind the closing doors
thu
08/10
20:30
Shards of lights
fri
09/10
20:30
2020. on love and freedom
sat
10/10
11:00
When i get jailed
sat
10/10
19:00
memory
sun
11/10
20:00
fri
09/10
16:00
Senator’s daughter
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Directed by Mstislav Chernov
(111 min, Ukraine, 2025)
From the Oscar-winning team behind 20 Days in Mariupol, 2000 Meters to Adriivka documents the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war from a personal and devastating vantage point. Following his historic account of the civilian toll in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov turns his lens towards Ukrainian soldiers — who they are, where they came from, and the impossible decisions they face in the trenches as they fight for every inch of their land.
5th of October
19:30h - Film Screening
Venue: Cinéma St. André des Art
30, rue Saint-André des Arts 75005 Paris
The Long Way Home
Directed by Michael Apted
(98 min, USA 1989; remastered 2026)
The Long Way Home is Michael Apted’s revealing, rollicking portrait of Soviet underground rock legend Boris Grebenshchikov, during his 1988 odyssey to the West to record an album and bring it back home in the early, optimistic days of Glasnost.
Remastered in 4K and available for the first time in over 30 years, it is followed by an epilogue co-directed by Steven Lawrence and Susanne Rostock (the film’s producer and editor) that brings Boris’s journey up to date, including his relocation to England after speaking out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
6th of October
20:00h - Film Screening
Venue: Cinéma St. André des Art
30, rue Saint-André des Arts 75005 Paris
Welded Together
Directed by Anastasiya Miroshnichenko
(96 min, Netherlands, Belgium, 2025)
Katya’s life as a welder is full of daily struggles, but her true battle lies within. As she strives to weld together the broken pieces of her past, she is faced with harsh reality. Katya tries to protect her little sister from a tragic fate, hoping for a better future for the two of them.
7th of October
20:00h - Film Screening
Venue: Cinéma St. André des Art
30, rue Saint-André des Arts 75005 Paris
The dogs
Directed by Aliman Toktogulova, Karash Zhanyshov
(61 min, Kyrgyzstan, 2025)
The country is getting rid of stray animals - by shooting them. This is happening because most people in the country are indifferent to stray animals. But there is one woman who cares about the lives of these stray animals. Over the course of 5 years, she has accumulated over 200 injured, abandoned and starving dogs in her home.
8th of October
18:45h - Film Screening
Venue: Cinéma L’Archipe
17 Bd de Strasbourg, 75010 Paris
Shards of Light
Directed by Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz
(93 min, Germany, 2025)
The residents of Bucha, Ukraine, are rebuilding their city from the rubble after surviving the horrors of Russian occupation.
A newly married couple, a schoolgirl, a city official,
and an elderly housewife have all endured the painful experiences of war, yet they manage to hold onto hope and solidarity. But how do you rebuild in the wake of growing trauma, especially with war still raging in your country?
9th of October
16:00h - Film Screening
Venue: Cinéma L’Archipe
17 Bd de Strasbourg, 75010 Paris
Mind the Closing doors
Directed by Yana Isaenko
(65 min, France 2025)
The Moscow Metro named after Lenin revived a Soviet tradition by forming a choir from its own employees: cashiers, train operators, and station staff. The choir conductor discovers
a previously unperformed opera titled "The Flood", which tells the story of the last day before the end of the world.
After a successful premiere, the choir embarks on its first tour, becoming participants in the onset of a real apocalypse.
8th of October
20:30h - Film Screening Venue: Cinéma L’Archipe
17 Bd de Strasbourg, 75010 Paris
Senator's daughter
Directed by Ekaterina Mamontova
(52 min, France, 2024)
When a Russian senator signs a decree authorizing the invasion of Ukraine, his daughter Diana does the unthinkable - she takes to the streets in protest. After her arrest, her father publicly threatens to imprison her. She flees the country - but not before saying goodbye to her friends and relatives. This intimate documentary follows Diana from silent dinners with conservative relatives to raw, confessional monologues in exile.
9th of October
20:30h - Film Screening
Venue: Cinéma St. André des Art
30 rue Saint-André des Arts 75005 Paris
2020. On love and freedom
Directed by Vitaly Mansky
(386 min, Latvia, 2023)
Reconstruction of 2020 through the history of the creation of a theatrical production about freedom, love and the meaning of life based on the biography of Mikhail Gorbachev.
10th of October
11:00h - Film Screening
Venue: Espace Liberté
29 rue du Moulin Joly, 75011 Paris
When I Get Jailed
Directed by Anastasiia Vedenskaia
(65 min, France, 2025)
Inevitable as it seemed, the premature death of Russia’s main opposition leader Alexei Navalny on 16 February 2024 still came as a shock. Immediately afterwards, his supporters went to the monument that President Putin himself unveiled in 2017
for the victims of Stalin’s political Senator's daughter oppression.
10th of October
19:00h - Film Screening
Venue: Cinéma St. André des Art
30 rue Saint-André des Arts 75005 Paris
Memory
Directed by Vladlena Sandu
(98 min, France, 2025)After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie
ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family. Yearslater, filmmaker Vladlena Sandu reflects
on her childhood in this poetic, autobiographical hybrid film, exploring how cycles of violence shape children - and how healing and change are possible.
11th of October
20:00h - Film Screening
Venue: Cinéma St. André des Art
30, rue Saint-André des Arts 75005 Paris
Venues
SAINT-ANDRÉ DES ARTS
Address: 30, rue Saint-André des Arts 75005 Paris - 180 seats.Saint-André-des-Arts is an independent art house cinema in Paris's 6th arrondissement. Over the years, it has demonstrated its commitment to promoting and supporting films d'auteur, and in particular, documentaries and experimental films.
Cinéma L’Archipel
Address: 17 Bd de Strasbourg, 75010 Paris - 92 seatsOriginally a café concert hall turned into a movie theater in 1907, L'Archipel is part of the network of independent Parisian cinemas. To introduce audiences to challenging—and sometimes difficult — art house cinema, L'Archipel hosts numerous events featuring filmmakers, critics, and organisations. 
l'atelier des artistes en exil
Address: 17 Bd de Strasbourg, 75010 Paris - 92 seatsA creative space dedicated to identifying artists in exile from all backgrounds and across all disciplines and supporting them according to their individual needs.
L'atelier des artistes en exil responds to requests for programming and develops its own events in collaboration with partner venues.
A CULTURAL ORGANIZATION USING ART AS A MEANS OF RESISTANCe
