OREANDA-NEWS VKontakte's Fandom Fest presented the first part of the 2025 program. This was reported in the VK press service.

The festival will be held on November 22-23 in Moscow. Chinese singer and blogger Xing Kaizheng will perform on the main stage: he gained viral popularity after participating in Russian-language music shows and is now a soloist in the Turkish Choir. The line-up will be replenished with famous representatives of pop culture.

The VK Play zone will open, where presentations of new projects, exclusive film screenings, master classes and Q&A sessions will take place. There will be three playgrounds in the space: a game room, a VK Play Talks lecture hall and an interactive photo zone. Guests will be able to try out popular and new games from VK Play on computers, participate in tournaments and challenges. In the lecture, developers and experts from the gaming industry will discuss games as a new art form, trends in Asian and Russian game development, the role of neural networks in the industry, and the phenomenon of Black Myth: Wukong.

For the first time at the festival there is a dubbing studio "Studio Gang". Her actors voiced the characters of the popular anime "Attack of the Titans", "Blade cleaving demons", "Dandandan", "Boy and Bird". Anastasia Portnaya, Anna Mosolova, and Alexander Skidanov will take the main stage.

In a public talk from the Like Book publishing house, guests will meet with one of the most popular authors of the Russian young adult, Asya Lavrinovich. They will also talk with Arina Zimering, Rita Hoffman, screenwriters and artists Natalia Nightday Vorontsova, Jamila Zulpikarova, Valentin Potkin, Anastasia Phobs Kim, editor-in-chief Ksenia Shpaletskaya and BUBBLE editor-in-chief Roman Kotkov.

There will also be a meeting with book bloggers. Irina Skugar, Lisa Varvara Aranova, Lyudmila Lichi and Maria Markova will discuss the plots of school classics and rewrite the annotations to books so that they will be read in 2025. Eva Merkacheva, a writer and human rights activist, Vasily Beinarovich (Faust), a psychiatrist, and Kamilla Magamedova, the author of the book "True Dates", will talk about Tru-edge at the public talk. The meetings will be moderated by Angelina Kartunova, blogger and influencer manager of the publishing group.

On the main stage, meetings will be held with the creators and actors of upcoming films: the film adaptation of the book "Your Heart will be broken", the third season of the series "Vampires of the Middle Lane", the feature film "Smeshariki" and the detective action "Black Silk". The star guests, including actors Veronika Zhuravleva, Dania Vegas and Zheng Hanyi, will answer questions, hold autograph sessions and exclusively present fragments from future film premieres for visitors of the VKontakte Fandom Fest. For the first time, the festival will show video footage from the film "Return to Silent Hill", which is scheduled for release in 2026.