VKontakte Fandom Fest reveals the first details of the program

Chinese singers Kai Xing and WEIYI will perform at the pop culture festival VKontakte Fandom Fest. The guests will get acquainted with the latest films, fantasy and youth literature. Leading the main stage will be actor Vladimir Kanukhin, actor and dubbing director Nikita Moiseev. The program will be updated. The festival will be held on October 10 and 11 at the CSKA Arena in Moscow.

On the main stage of the Fandom Fest, the Sister will perform songs with ethnic motifs and electronic dance sound. Kai Xing, a blogger, performer of compositions in Russian and Chinese, participant of the popular Skyeng and Tutti Frutti video projects, will sing for visitors. Pop tracks at the junction of two cultures will be presented by Chinese artist WEIYI.

Actors and creators of the espionage action film "Black Silk" will perform at the festival. Gleb Kalyuzhny and Zheng Hanyi, together with the authors of the film, will show exclusive materials, answer questions, talk about filming and hold an autograph session.

The main stage will feature the film "On the Fragments of your Heart", the sequel to the melodramatic hit "Your Heart will be Broken". The artists and creators of the sixth season of the Daddy's Daughters series will answer questions, share exclusives from the filming and present an interactive fan zone. Details about the composition of the participants will appear later.

The presentation of the film "80 beats per minute" will take place on the laval stage. This is a story about a girl who fell in love with a man from her dream and one day saw his photo in reality. Actors Dmitry Endaltsev, Alyona Dolgolenko, Nelly Uvarova and Grigory Kalinin, for whom this film became his directorial debut, will perform at the festival.

AST will hold an immersive presentation of the manhwa and the novella "Under the Oak Tree" by Kim Suji, featuring a booktrailer and exclusive collectible materials. Theater, film and dubbing actor Vlad Tokarev will give an artistic reading of an excerpt from the book.

Freedom will hold a meeting with best-selling author Alisa Djukic and popular artist Karolina Harit. In the lecture hall program, Marshmallow Books will invite Olga Vlasenko to discuss Magrealism and Chthonic fantasy in Russian realities. Writer Victoria Wojcicke and other speakers will discuss the appeal of horror. The writer Yana Mia will hold a book improvisation on the main stage — the participants will be able to create their own book on the go. Alpina Non-Fiction will host a quiz for fans of manga and anime "Sasuke, return to Konoha." ABC will present novelties of Young and New Adult, comics and manga. Among them is the expansion of the "One Piece" universes. Big Jackpot", "Magic Battle" and "Naruto". Eksmo invites you to discuss the novel "Liu Yao. The Revival of the Fuyao Clan" by the Chinese author Priest.

The cosplay contest will bring together fans of video games, comics, movies and Asian culture in costumes of popular characters. Applications for participation are accepted until August 30th. You can apply for the dance cover contest until September 13. This year there will be twice as many competitive slots and finalists. The total prize fund is 1.1 million rubles.

Artists, cosplayers, craftspeople and other artists will take part in the Alley of Authors. Guests will get acquainted with Arknights: Endfield, a role—playing gacha game with dynamic battles, base construction and open world exploration from GRYPHLINE.

In 2025, the VKontakte Fandom Fest gathered 15,000 people at the Main Stage in Moscow. Tickets were sold out before the start of the event. EVERGLOW, DKB, The Last Live, Nomads and other artists performed on the main stage.