2023
Tashkent International Film Festival-IV
In 1976, the Tashkent International Film Festival united all three continents by adding participants from Latin America. Thus, the motto of the Film Festival "For Peace, Social Progress and Freedom of Peoples" sounded with renewed vigor.
According to the established tradition, the Festival program included a number of events, inter alia, trips to the most beautiful Uzbek cities, already fancied by many guests; film screenings program; a forum of filmmakers; press screenings for journalists, etc.
Among the films presented, the show included the following documentary and popular science films: The Soldier Was Walking, The Heart of Corvalan, The Golodnaya Steppe, There is only one Earth, Uzbek atlas, Gur-Emir. There was also a show of animated cartoon films, including The Humpbacked Horse, The Tale of the Shepherd and the Beautiful Princess, Well, Just You Wait! (episode 9), I give you a star, Hedgehog in the Fog.
The 1976 film market presented the works of Soviet directors. Feature films The White Steamer, The Fiery Coast, Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven, I Take the Responsibility, When September Comes and others were shown In the metropolitan House of Cinema for the first time. A total of 25 new feature films were included in the main screening program.
Furthermore, film screenings of that year were enriched with films created by Latin American colleagues. More than 100 foreign feature films shot in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe were presented in the halls of the Uzbekfilm studio and the Studio of documentary and educational films.
A creative meeting of participants and guests with filmmakers of Uzbekistan took place within the framework of the Festival. At the end of the meeting, the participants and guests enjoyed the screenings of the films Alone among People and Shakhimardan.
Each year, the Tashkent International Film Festival became the cohesion center of film industry professionals, discovered new names and expanded boundaries. 1976 TIFF became a symbol of the fact that the common endeavor of the development and promotion of cinema, begun in 1968, united not just countries and cities, but entire continents.