A Common Cultural Space: Is It Possible Today? - Programme - St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum
Panel Discussion
RUS, ENG

A Common Cultural Space: Is It Possible Today?

11/09/2025
12:00 — 13:30
General Staff Building, Green Hall 6/8 Palace sq., St. Petersburg

When the cultural field fragments, is there any hope for unity?

Can cinema become a new agora—a space for dialogue among different languages, generations, and traditions?

This session explores the potential of art as a space of encounter rather than conflict.

Focus: the synthesis of cultures, the role of the translator in the broad sense, transmedia, and cultural diplomacy.

Moderator:

Ivan Kudryavtsev, film journalist, producer, host of the program “The Film Industry”.

Speakers:

  1. Alexander Pankin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation;
  2. Alexander Zharov, Director General, Gazprom-Media Holding;
  3. Svetlana Balanova, Director General, National Media Group JSC;
  4. Leonid Vereshchagin, Director General, Studio TriTe, producer;
  5. Milos Bikovic, stage and screen actor; producer;
  6. Fatemeh Mohammadi, Director of the Museum of Cinema of Iran.