XVI Kazan Film Festival will be dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the TASSR

From September 4 to September 9, 2020, Kazan will host the 16th International Muslim Film Festival. The main theme of the festival will be the 100th anniversary of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. A number of programs will be dedicated to this event.

In one of the programs  the  archival films about significant events, famous artists of the Soviet Tatarstan will be presented. Another selection will be devoted to films that were shot in Kazan and contain scenes with recognizable city sights - from the “Real Tale” by A. Marmontov with Sergey Bezrukov in the title role to the adventure comedy “Treasures of Lake Kaban” by D. Korobkin with Alexei Vorobyov as a adventurous treasure hunter.

Traditionally, the program will include the special project “Kazan Premieres”, where Tatarstan filmmakers present the paintings they are working on, or the films they just  have been  created. It is expected that the premiere of the full-length film «Sumbul» based on the novel of the same name by Zifa Kadyrova, filmed at the end of 2019 by filmmakers of Tatarstan and Uzbekistan (in co-production) is expected to take place.

It is worth noting that under the auspices of the 100th anniversary of the TASSR, the "Weeks of Contemporary Tatarstan Cinema" are already taking place in different cities of Russia. So, from the beginning of this year, the films “Baigal” by I. Yagafarov, “Mulla” by A. Galiaskarov, “Apipa” I. Rakhimbay and others have already been shown in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Astrakhan, Krasnodar, Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, Orenburg and others cities. During 2020, this project will cover 43 regions of Russia.

Kazan International Muslim Film Festival has been held in the capital of Tatarstan since 2005. The topics of the forum are universal spiritual, moral, family values, cultural traditions, ideas of peacekeeping, religious tolerance and humanism. The program includes movies  by Russian and foreign filmmakers that are relevant to the theme of the festival, regardless of the confessional and nationality of the authors. The motto of the festival is “Through the dialogue of cultures to a culture of dialogue.”

In 2020, the Kazan Film Forum will be held from September 4 to 9. Applications for the festival continue until June 1. Additional information - on the official website of the festival kazan-mfmk.com

The organizers of the festival are  Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan,  Council of Muftis of Russia,  Executive Committee of the Kazan Municipal Formation, the state budgetary institution of culture of the Republic of Tatarstan "Tatarkino" with the participation of the Regional Branch of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Tatarstan. The partner of the festival is the Russia-Islamic World strategic vision group. The festival is supported by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan R.N. Minnikhanov.