On April 26, students and teachers heard reports and discussed the issues of television development in Russia and China. The reports were presented by master's degree students of the program Management of Television Industry Enterprises.

The Festival programme included the National Scientific Conference called Water Resources – Natural Wealth of Planet Earth and a meeting with a trainer of deep-sea diving specialists, engineer, photographer and cameraman, Nikolay Shestakov, who gave a speech on the topic of Photography in Extreme Conditions.

The 47th Grenzland-Filmtage Selb International Film Festival will be held in Selb (Germany) on April, 4-7. The work of Dilshod Avazov (S. Ovcharov’s workshop, the class of 2023) short feature film Niso as well as We mourn directed by Elizaveta Verkhozina (A. Antonov’s class, the class of 2022) will be presented during the main competition stage.

Anna Danilova’s documentary film Re-discovery is included in the program of the CINENOVA Film Festival - 2024.

SPUFT is an official full member of CILECT, which is the largest international association of cinema, audiovisual and media schools.

David's film What Happened Before the Guests Had Arrived won the first prize in the Short Film category at the Echo BRICS Film Festival.

The closing ceremony of the international stage of the XXIII International Student Film Festival PiterKiT took place on November, 28 in SPUFT.

The colleagues discussed issues of further cooperation within the framework of the international programme of cooperation in the field of education.

The annual Festival will be held in two stages: the first stage (for SPUFT students) –October, 19-23, and the second stage (international) – November, 24-28 in the SPUFT's concert hall (Bukharestskaya street, 22) and in the creative space "Loft" (Pravdy street, 13).

On October, 10 Ekaterina Sazonova was appointed Rector of the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television by the order of Russian Ministry of Culture.