KOTLOVAN

RUSSIA 70 MIN, 2025

WORLD PREMIERE

ABOUT

In Mirny, Siberia, a gargantuan abandoned diamond quarry—a post-industrial chasm threatening the city—inspires a Moscow architect’s audacious vision: 'New Babylon,' a self-contained ecosystem merging Soviet-era science with utopian ideals. Within Siberia’s unforgiving expanse, this experiment seeks to transcend earthly limits, transforming a relic of collapse into a cradle of rebirth. Can humanity’s future rise from the depths?

DIRECTOR

NIKOLAY BEM

Nikolay Bem was born in Yakutia in Neryungri in 1977. He lives in Krasnoyarsk. Member of the "Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation". Founder of the SiberiaDOC project (siberiadoc.com). In 2021 he became a laureate of the award of the Russian Society of Knowledge "For contribution to education in the field of "Culture and Art".

Filmography:
2025 "Kotlovan", documentary
2024 "Bless Andrey!", documentary
2022 "Ivan's Ladder", documentary
2015 "Snowdrop", fiction

SECTION

Main Competition 2025