Man close-up

Attention to the person in the context of the principles of tolerance may be called the main theme of short documentaries, having  caught   in competitive  top ten  of the  XI Kazan International Muslim Film Festival.

The name of the hero of the film by Katerina Dorofeeva "Vasily Eroshenko. Road to the Sun "(Russia), few people know. Blinded in his early childhood, he, despite his illness, lived an amazing and wonderful life. The writer, a talented musician, one of the leading singers of the Esperanto language, passionately loved life and people, he traveled around the world and taught  the blind to feel this world and live a full life.

The hard way of formation and ascent - from immigrants   to equal members of society - the young musicians  Ayrat Ishmuratov and his wife, Elvira, having   left  Tatarstan  for Canada  passed through,    and at long last  achieved  dizzying heights of  career. The story of their lives is reflected in the film   by  Zufar Khairullin "On a high note" (Russia, Tatarstan). ... Life of emigrants  Tatars in Finland, is reflected  in   movie by   Ramil Belyaev "Sacred heritage" (Finland). After moving to foreign lands in the 20's of last century, Tatar merchants bought land and formed the Tatar community. The main goal of these people was to preserve  native language and traditions of their people, and Muslims cherished dream - to build a mosque.

War veterans, soldiers hostile armies became heroes of the film    by  Nasur Yurushbaev "Two prisoner: Javit  and Walter» (Russia-Germany). The film is  dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. ... Bitter reproach for  anyone who picks a war in our time,   is the film   by  Rekesh Shahbaz "# 73" (Iraq) - about seventy-third in succession a big genocide against the Kurds- Yezidis from the group Islamic State. Following  the young man who comes to the village where his elderly parents were   left,   director  leads  by the audience  on the road, which is full of destitute refugees, women, children and the elderly.

Film   by  Natalia Ivanova (Russia) "Taldom farmer from the banks of the Nile" tells the story of an Egyptian born in a large and very poor family. Man forced to "break" his  own. By chance he gets to Russia, where after years of life of the emigrant settles in one of the villages, and sets up  his  farm. Hard work, respect for people of different nationalities make him a rich man, and a part of the multi-ethnic community of Russians ... empathy and compassion permeated the film    by Alexandra Pustynnova "Indefinite forms" (Russia), which also tells about the problems faced by migrant workers in Russia.

The film "Kyal-Kele"  by Elena Poroshina  (Russia) dwells  about "The last Mansi '- a small people living in a wood  hut in a remote forest. He does not feel like the king of nature, but only part of it - as well as the characters of the film    by Natalia Zhuravleva " Zevrinetz (Menagerie)" (Russia), the tape about the nursery for  conservation of rare, endangered species of animals.

The object of study of the Iranian director Mokhtar Namdar in "The House in the Fog" was a seemingly unremarkable woman named Sora. For a long time she lived alone in the house of master  at the foot of the mountain. Caring for animals, thoroughly cleaning  the house, and that it  simply a silent existence emerges an image of this Muslim woman.

The full program of the festival competition films published on the website kazan-mfmk.com