Informal opening of Kazan Film Festival will be held

The X Kazan International Muslim Film Festival is not limited only to the traditional opening and closing ceremonies at the "Pyramid". For the first time, at the jubilee film festival an informal opening and closing ceremonies - events in cinema-party format, interesting primarily   for young audience will be held.

Informal opening ceremony is scheduled on September 6 at the cinema "Mir". Guests of the evening will be provided a unique archival collection of European avant-garde - short black-and-white silent films of the 1920s and 1930s. The movies, which surprised the audience 90 years ago, will suit taste of  modern "cinema gourmet" - all those,  who are inspired by the muse of cinema. To immerse in the atmosphere of a century-old cinema will be possible due to "live" sound, presented as by a classic piano and experimental electronic music performed by pianist Arseniy Trofim (Moscow).

The guests  to be offered  a photo shooting  "On  Red Carpet," contests with prizes corresponding to the atmosphere  if  "cinema  night",  a musical program and refreshments - in short, a great holiday of cinema.

"The informal opening ceremony - it's a party for those who appreciate a good film, regardless of whether it is shot  today or "  far yesterday, "for those who are willing to be happy   to "live "a few hours in  real cinema -  art director  of  the  X KIMFF  Albina Nafigova said. - Young film enthusiasts often  are  misled   by the  word "Muslim", and for various reasons, including due to lack of time, they can not always attend showings  of  the competition program. Hopefully, with the help of interesting parallel programs,   in time,  we will be capable   to  turn them  into  regular viewers of the main contest program. Now,  for us the main thing - to show young people that Kazan Film Festival is a really good cinema  from different countries, eras. And all this is possible in our dialogue of cultures. "

Arseniy Trofim - famous Russian pianist and composer, wrote the music for   44 short and feature films, as well as the rarest masterpieces of silent animation. Trofim - one of the initiators of the project "Modern tapersky cinema", reviving  the tradition of unique, almost forgotten art - live voice of silent film cinema. Cinema concerts  of the  project took place in the most prestigious halls of the country. In 2011,  the company  INTERACT    issued    the first official release of the "Modern tapersky cinema» - DVD-ROM with   Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus"   film  in 1928, the composer was Arseniy Trofim.

The X Kazan International Muslim Film Festival will be held in Kazan from    September 5 to 11,  2014 More information on the official website kazan-mfmk.com.

Press service

Ministry of Culture of Tatarstan