Travel to Russia cinema «made in France»

12 January 2012, Thursday

Kazan airport, Saturday, December 10, 2011. Early morning departed from Moscow the French delegation is waiting for its luggage while a winter sun lazily starts rising.
This time of the year, in the republic of Tatarstan, small but autonomous region of Russia, air temperature rarely gets down lower -10.
The city millionaire located 30 minutes from the airport in center of which the Kremlin is spread out over the hill dominated by a grandiose white mosque.
Its construction was finished in 1995 and it peacefully co-exists with neighboring Orthodox temple.
Kazan - a city located on the Urals on border between Europe and Asia in the point of confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, since the year 2004 has been hosting international festival of Muslim cinema, by words of vice minister of culture Guzel Nigmatullina, is an important event for new discoveries and international dialogue.
The same sense minister takes to a festival «French cinema today» which first time takes place in Kazan.
Earlier, the festival «French cinema today» took place in Vladivostok, Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk.
Organizer of the festival is a Unifrance agency staff which is engaged in promoting French cinema abroad.
The staff includes , in particular, Joel Charpone, a big connoisseur of Russian culture, Russian language and cinema.
Department of culture of French embassy in Russia and “Alliance France” also rendered help in holding festival.

RT Ministry of culture press-service

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