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.

The film script was selected last autumn at the IV Russian-Chinese pitching of student synopses for film, television and new media "ONEFUTURE". The event was organised by SPUFT, Jilin Animation Institute (Jilin City, China) and SILK ROAD MEDIA production centre.

The film "Days of Doubt" by Dilshod Avazov, a student of the feature film department of the St. Petersburg State University of Flilm and Television, became a prize-winner of the XIII International Youth Film Festival "Light to the World". The jury awarded the film with three prizes at once.

On 29 July, Natalia Gorina, Head of the Department of Film and Television Production, held a meeting with Evelyn Mutsvanvgwa, Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation of the Republic of Zimbabwe, who was the representative of the official Zimbabwean delegation at the Second Russia-Africa Summit and Economic and Humanitarian Forum held in St. Petersburg on 27-28 July 2023.

The film "Neglekt" directed by Maria Streltsova was included in the program of the Student Academy Awards. The semi-final of the competition will be held in July 2023.

On May 15, a solemn meeting of foreign guests took place at the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television. Students and teachers from Hainan Normal University were welcomed by representatives of the university. As part of the foreign delegation, Secretary of the Committee of the Youth Union Cai Ting and acting teacher Ruan Yongchen visited St. Petersburg.

The world premiere of the film Aykuo by Ayaal Adamov took place within the framework of the Busan International Short Film Festival. The film is the graduation work of the student of Alexander Sokurov's class of the Saint Petersburg State University of Film and Television.

The grand opening of the IX International Film Festival of Student Works of Sound Engineers "INtonations" took place at the Saint Petersburg State University of Film and Television. More than 500 applications from 22 countries were submitted to the Festival, 69 works are included in the competition program.

The IX International Film Festival of Student Works by Sound Engineers INtonations has set a new record for the number of applications for participation. In total, the organizers received 576 works, of which 114 came from Russian film schools and 462 from foreign ones.

On February 27, the delegation of the Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture met with Rector of the St. Petersburg University of Film and Television, Alexander Babayan.

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of India thanked the representatives of SPUFT for participating in the conference "Philology in the Modern World: a view from Russia and India". As part of the event, a special screening of short films by students of SPUFT and MGIK was held at Jawaharlal Nehru University (India).

Students of Saint Petersburg University of Film and Television received 15th Shanghai Student Film Festival’s awards in two categories at once - "Best Cinematography" and "Best Animated Short Film".

A student of the Media Communication Technologies Department received a prize at the student scientific and practical conference within the framework of the XXIV International Baltic Communication Forum "Global and Regional Communications: present and future".

Winners of the XXII International Student Film Festival "PiterKiT" were announced in the cinema concert hall of SPUFT on November, 16. Among the laureates are students of SPUFT, as well as representatives of other Russian and foreign film schools.

A solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the first stage of the XXII International Student Film Festival "PiterKiT" took place at SPUFT. All the winners proceeded to the second stage of the competition, they will compete with the works of students of Russian and foreign film schools.

On September 28, the concert hall of St Petersburg State University of Film and Television was filled with students, connoisseurs of creativity, who wished to explore the best works of world's advertising industry.

Dear students and postgraduates, dear teachers, staff of our University and, of course, first-year students. I sincerely congratulate you on the Day of Knowledge and the beginning of a new academic year at one of the leading centers of cinematographic education in Russia – the State University of Film and Television in St. Petersburg!

This year, which marks the tenth anniversary of Koroche, the student program Laboratory Koroche began its work within the framework of the festival. Students of the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television took part and became winners in the nominations "Best Director" and "Best Idea".

Rector of the Saint Petersburg State University of Film and Television, Natalia Gorina, congratulated the Inner Mongolia Normal University (IMNU) on its 70th anniversary.

July 2-3, 2022 took place The XXXIII International Festival of Intellectual Games "White Nights – SPUFT", which was organised with organizational and informational support of SPUFT.

In May 2022, the XIV International Student Theater Festival "APART" culminated in Saint Petersburg. Students of SPUFT's Acting Department participated in the festival and adequately represented our university by earning 11 laureate awards. Although this time our actors did not get the Grand Prix as it was in 2021, three SPUFT's performances received deserved recognition from the jury members and the audience!