International Disability Film Festival «Breaking Down Barriers» is a unique inclusive project that unites authors, creators of films about the lives of people with disabilities, from all over the world.

The film festival was first held in 2002, when the topic of inclusion in Russia was not yet very developed, but times changed, the attitude of society and the state changed. Every year the film festival developed and found new friends all over the world.

The festival is held for two years, and over its more than twenty-year history it has received tens of thousands of applications: videos, feature and documentary films, animated films. Both short and full-length films participate in the competition and non-competition programs.