Competition Program of the X Kazan Film Festival: nomination "Animation"

According to the regulations, the competition program of the X International Festival of Muslim Cinema in Kazan consists of ten animated films. At the Forum,  for prizes will fight cartoons from Turkey, Portugal, Iraq, UK, Iran ( 2 films ) and Russia (4 films). The competition program of animated films will be of interest to both adults and young viewers.

Applications for participation in the Kazan Film Festival 2014 in  nomination y "Animation" came from a dozen of  countries, including for the first time - from the UK and Portugal. Traditionally,   Iranian animators   presented a large selection. "A lot of movies are made in a very dissimilar techniques - explains art director   the  X KIFMC  Albina Nafigova. - I think  for  the jury will not be easy to make a choice, and the audience   enjoy  watching these films. "

A premiere  of the festival, will   a joint work  by  Tatarstan and  Crimean animators  -  a cartoon "Good ant" from the series "Crimean fairy tales"    will be shown.   According to the authors, this is the first in the history of Russian animation cartoon, created of the basis of  the folk tales in  the Crimean - Tatar language. Good children's cartoon is decorated in a traditional style: the characters are dressed in costumes of the Crimean Tatars, and the image of a fabulous forest is a reminiscent of traditional ornaments. The film was made in record time. In terms of animation - a series of stories about the adventures of the industrious ant, able to empathize with his r fellow brothers  and always ready to help.

Quite interesting is an  animated trilogy "Zilant tales" based on the works   by  A.Alish,  produced by "Tatarmultfilm" (directed by Sergei Kiatrov). These are short stories on behalf of the  animated symbol of Kazan - Dragon Zilant. In one of them  a duckling  on  his own example shows that it is better to play sports than to spend days playing computer. Another cartoon, representing Tatarstan, was created by young,  but already having  rewards director Elena Ermolina. The film entitled "Whom is more difficult" with a great sense of humor tells the story of eternal dispute  between husbands and wives whose work is harder.

The competition program includes several animated films with philosophical overtones, addressed primarily to an adult audience. This is a film  by  the twin sisters Marina and Tatiana  Moshkovs "Wires" - St. Petersburg fantasy about what would happen if the spoken words were  turned into creatures and made their own decisions ... Quite different, is  not  a homelike, as  the  Moshkovs sisters,   but   pompous and stately, appears to us  Petersburg   in  animated film "Near Neva" (Great Britain). The film's director, our compatriot Ekaterina Lavrenova  was born and  received  art education in Moscow. The film "Near Neva" she created at the final stage of  her  education in graduate school   English NFTS, where she   had studied animation. Her view of the city on the Neva River - is the sight of a foreigner in the Russia. The October Revolution forever separated  a couple,  who barely had time to encounter and love each other a man and a woman. Memoirs of a "wonderful moment" of their meeting at the bridge near the Winter Palace, and a gas scarf of his beloved English  gentleman keeps for all his life ...

The film by Turkish director Coray Sevindi "Head" tells the story about  the inner freedom of man.  Director Sana Karimi  dedicated  to  film “House of Sun”   to a Woman.  With much love to the woman created his poetic animation "Another Birth" a fellow Iranian animator Siamak Takallo. His film  is  an illustration of the eponymous poem by the famous Arab poet Foroh Farruhzad .: "All my existence like an endless monotonous song. But this song takes us away to the sources of growth and flowering, it is  connected with  a wind in  trees, fire and water ... "

The competition program of the X Kazan Film Festival in nomination  "Animation" also included the film "Accordion" (Iraq) and "Navigation" (Portugal).   The   X  Kazan International Muslim Film Festival will be held in the capital of Tatarstan, from    September 5 to 11,  2014 The official website of the festival kazan-mfmk.com.

Kazan International Muslim Film Festival (KIMFF) - one of the largest domestic film festivals is  held  in the capital of Tatarstan annually since 2005. The concept of the festival is reflected in its motto: "Through the dialogue of cultures to the culture of dialogue." The program of the forum  has sorted out  the   films bearing   the idea of peacemaking, tolerance, telling about the ways of building inter-ethnic dialogue, - regardless of the religion of the author. It is no coincidence  that among  the professionals the   Kazan film festival  is  named "Festival of Humane films."

The   participants  of the festival annually become directors representing European and Asian cinema, Russia and the former Soviet Union. The international jury  was  headed in different years   by  Vladimir Khotinenko, Karen Shakhnazarov, Vadim Abdrashitov. Guests of honor at the festival were: Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Adjani, Mark Dacascos, Adrien Brody, Ornella Muti, Nikita Mikhalkov, Eldar Ryazanov, Yevgeny Mironov, Aristarchus Livanov, Alexander Mitta, Igor Petrenko, Alla Surikov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Vladimir Menshov and others.

The winners of the festival over the years have become movies: "Muslim," directed by Vladimir Khotinenko (Russia), "Magician" by Oktay Mir Kasim (Azerbaijan), "Tears of Cold"  by  Azizollah Hamidnezade (Iran), "Baba Aziz"  by  Nasser Khemiri (France-Germany-Tunisia, Hungary, Iran and Great Britain), "Mi for Mom" by Rasul Mollagolipura (Iran), "Jodha Akbar" by  Ashutosh Govarihera (India), "One War"   by  Vera  Glagoleva (Russia), "Piece of sugar" by Sayyid Mir-Karimi (Iran), "Circles"   by  Srdjan Golubovicha (Serbia).

The year  2014  is special   for the Kazan Film Festival. By RF   Presidential Decree the year 2014  has been  declared the Year of Culture. In March 2014, Kazan took a  status of capital of the Turkic world (assigned by the International Organization "Turksoi" for one year). In 2014, the 90th anniversary of film distribution in Tatarstan, the corresponding anniversary marks GBUK RT "Tatarkino", which is engaged in the preparation and  holding  of the Kazan Film Festival.

The X International Festival of Muslim Cinema in Kazan will be held from September 5 to 11,  the  2014 competitive program will make 50 films that are to  compete for the award of the festival:

10 statuettes on nominations (full-length feature films: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best actor and Best actress,  Best short fiction film, Best animated film, Best documentary feature, Best short documentary)

Special prizes of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan "For Humanism in cinema," International Organization "Turksoy' from Guild of Film Critics of Russia and others.

A Jubilee Festival  has  invited the chairmen of the jury  for  all the years and friends of the festival, who influenced its history, as well as directors and film critics from the "Turksoy."

Beside competition program, the audience is offered also a non-competitive   and parallel programs. The festival will held master classes with figures of cinema, creative meetings with participants of the festival, round tables devoted to actual problems of motion picture arts, press conferences.

Press service Ministry of Culture of Tatarstan