The list of jury of the jubilee X Kazan International Muslim Film Festival became known. The international jury included well-known figures of cinema from South Korea, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Russia.
Chairman will be the laureate of the USSR State Award, a winner of international film festivals in Locarno, Venice and Sorrento, film director, screenwriter and operator Khodjakuli Narliev (Turkmenistan). Classic of Turkmen cinema Khodjakuli Narliev is the author of the films "Daughter in law", "Mankurt", "Jamal Tree", "Mother's voice" and others. More than 20 years he headed the Union of Cinematographers of the Turkmen SSR, worked at the studio "Turkmenfilm." Currently, Khodjakuli Narliev is a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Motion Picture Arts "Nika".
The panel of jury enters film critics Ihsan Kabil (Turkey) and Hong Sang Woo (South Korea). Ihsan Kabil repeatedly worked in the jury of international film forums, he is an advisor to the General Director of the Turkish state television, published in magazines, directs Center of Art, teaches film and aesthetics. His colleague from South Korea - Hong Sang Woo - film scholar, critic and professor of Russian language and literature of the National University Gengsang, board member of the Korean Association of Russian language and literature. Over the years, he worked in the jury of Tashkent, Moscow, Almaty, Pusan international Film Festivals.
Film director and actor, screenwriter, writer, People's Artist and Honored Art, member of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan Taufiq Ismailov is more known by music television movies, including children - "Music Teacher" and "I come up with a song." Since 2007, T.Ismailov teaches at the State University of Culture and Arts of Azerbaijan.
Tatarstan in the jury is presented by screenwriter and playwright, a member of the Writers' Union and the Union of theatrical figures of Russia Mansur Gilyazov. Chief editor and producer of the film studio "Ramai" Mansur Gilyazov - writer of most famous works of modern Tatarstan cinema, including the films "Kuktau" by Ildar Yagafarov (Tatar first full-length feature film, having got recognition at international film festivals) and "Bibinur" by Yuri Feting (prize-taker of Honfleur international film festivals in France, "Eurasia», New York Eurasian film festival, winner of the Grand Prix of Kazan Film Festival-2010).
The X International Festival of Muslim Cinema in Kazan will be held from September 5 to 11, 2014. Competition showings take place in the cinema "Rodina". Parallel programs and retrospectives are held in cinema, "Mir ", "Kinomax" and in the RT House of Peoples' Friendship. Admission to competition showings is free, for non-competition - from 50 to 180 rubles.
The official website of the festival kazan-mfmk.com.
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