VKontakte Fandom Fest gathered 15,000 pop culture fans

The festival was held on November 22 and 23 at the Main Stage in Moscow. All tickets of all categories were sold out before the start of the event. EVERGLOW, DKB, The Last Live, Nomads, WEIYI and KAI performed on the main stage. Excerpts from the films "Pinocchio" and "Return to Silent Hill" were exclusively shown at the festival. Saikono announced the release date of the final episode of "Bunny", the creators of "Vampires of the Middle Lane" talked about the denouement of the third season.

On the main stage, the EVERGLOW headliners performed their hits and announced that they would tour six Russian cities in 2026. The group has created an official VKontakte page.

The international debut of the Korean boy band The Last Live took place at the festival: the artists performed songs that have not yet been recorded. The band will release their first album in December this year. Chinese singer KAI presented his signature song, and in a conversation with reporters noted that Russia inspires him to dream and be himself.

At the event, Saikono announced the fifth chapter of the horror game Bunny. The release will take place on December 5th. The new episode has 20 alternate endings. The author said that he is planning a prequel to the game: a manga about Roma and Byasha, the heroes of the game "Bunny".

Yuri Kolokolnikov and Fedor Fedotov appeared on the main stage in the images of their characters from the film "Lefty". The actors told about the action adventure together with another hero of the picture: the name of the robot assistant is still kept secret.

The creators of the series "Vampires of the Middle Lane" exclusively presented the trailer for the finale of the third season for the guests of the festival. The release of the last five episodes will take place in February 2026.

Fragments from the new fairy tale "Pinocchio" were exclusively shown at the VKontakte Fandom Fest. Actors Vitaly Kornienko, Stepan Belozerov and screenwriter Andrey Zolotarev talked with the guests. Evgeny Tkachuk, Daniil Vorobyov and Mark-Malik Murashkin presented the blockbuster adventure film The Spinning Top.

The festival hosted the presentation of the Cannes Film Festival nominee "Die, My Love". The Russian premiere of the anime "Stometrovka" was presented by Dmitry Chebotarev, who gave voice to one of the key characters. The Russian Reportage company, the official distributor of Stometrovka in Russia, has received recognition from the fandom community and a medal from the VKontakte Fandom Fest.

Director Andrey Volgin, producer Vadim Byrkin and actress Zheng Hanyi exclusively showed the first teaser of the film "Black Silk" (the sequel to the detective action "Red Silk").

At the presentation of the film based on Anna Jane's bestseller "Your Heart will be Broken", the actors who played the main characters performed for the first time in front of the audience and showed an excerpt from the film adaptation: the scene of Polina Tumanova and the Leopard meeting. Director Daria Lebedeva, actors Mila Ershova and Yuri Nasonov talked about the success of the film "You Drive me crazy."

Actor of theater, cinema and dubbing Islam Ganjaev spoke about the horror "Return to Silent Hill". The guests saw exclusive videos and the director's address to the audience. Writer and screenwriter Sergey Lukyanenko presented the feature film "Smeshariki through the Universes".

At the festival, the guests talked with Asya Lavrinovich, one of the most popular authors of the Russian young adult, and the artist of the "Beware of that Devil!" Blue Canna manga. At the ABC public talk, we met blogger Anthony Yulai.

The editors of VK Music podcasts and audiobooks and the O2 publishing house presented the media project "The Point of View of the Omniscient Reader". You can listen to it exclusively in VK Music.

VK Video and Stereotactic production presented a documentary series about Russian comics, "Watch: A series about comics in Russia." Cyberia Nova Studio has introduced a new action adventure game "Zemsky Sobor". In it, players immerse themselves in the behind-the-scenes intrigues of 1613 through the story of Kirsha the Cossack.

For the first time, one of the most popular mobile MOBA games, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, was presented at the festival. Honkai: Star Rail returned to the VKontakte Fandom Fest — in the VK Play zone, guests tried the new version of the game 3.7 "Become yesterday tomorrow"

A cosplay competition and a K-pop Cover Dance Champ were held on the main stage. The jury selected the best among 163 cosplayers and 30 dance teams. The winners shared the prize fund of 1.1 million rubles.

The festival has created an accessible environment for visitors with disabilities. A podium for people with limited mobility and ramps were built near the main stage. For the first time at the VKontakte Fandom Fest, the tracks of performers in Chinese and Korean were translated into Russian sign language. The full broadcast, translated into Russian, can be viewed on the official community of the festival.

VKontakte Fandom Fest, a project of the VKontakte social network, was first held in 2023. The festival annually gathers thousands of fans of pop culture: cosplayers, gamers, fans of movies, k-pop, comics, anime, video games, esports, doramas, webtoons and digital art.