2023
Tashkent International Film Festival-V
70 creative meetings of the participants and guests were held during Tashkent International Film Festival in 1978. They were attended by actors and directors from Afghanistan, Equatorial Guinea, India, Japan, Mexico, Senegal, Mongolia, Bolivia, Cape Verde Republics, Australia, Sudan, Mali, Guyana. 128 thousand spectators participated in those creative meetings.
The Festival event program was bright, impressive and rich. The sightseeing program included excursion to the VDNKh of the Uzbek SSR, the Tashkent branch of the Central Lenin Museum, the Museum of Arts, the Museum of Friendship of Peoples, the Museum of the History of Uzbekistan, the Museum of Applied Arts. The participants and guests of the Festival visited Tashkent theaters and the circus.
Some excursions were organized on individual request. Indian filmmakers visited the students of the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute. The delegation of Ethiopia got acquainted with the work of the Republican Television Center, while filmmakers of Tanzania learned about the conditions of film production at the Uzbekfilm studio.
In addition, numerous press conferences and screenings of festival films were held within the framework of the Film Festival.
It should be noted that the Festival program included such short films as Safari, Mountains and Sea, Cultural Revival, Barnabas, Burqa, First Step, On the Niger River, Banconi, Battle, May 1, Field, etc.
71 representatives of film distribution companies and film organizations from 42 countries participated in the film market. The main program of the film market covered 53 Soviet feature films produced in 1977-1978. 13 Soviet feature films and 101 short films were shown for representatives from television.
Over 40 contracts with foreign film entrepreneurs who purchased about 100 Soviet films were signed at the film market. The following films created in the USSR enjoyed great success among foreign film distributors: Love and Fury, Hatred, Trans-Siberian Express, Tavern on Pyatnitskaya, Front Behind the Front Line.
Press coverage of the Festival involved 228 journalists, including 76 representatives of the foreign media.