2023
Tashkent International Film Festival-IX
Symbolically, the grand opening of the Tashkent International Film Festival was announced by pigeons that surrounded the panel with the Festival's emblem located at the facade of the main headquarters of the film forum - Uzbekistan hotel. This unusual performance spectacularly highlighted the Festival's motto: "For peace, social progress and freedom of peoples!"
On the eve of such a large-scale and significant event, the organizers decorated Tashkent with thematic banners and bright welcome signs as a sign of hospitality.
Prominent figures from various fields were invited to the opening of the Film Festival: Yevgeniy Chazov - Academician, Nobel Prize Laureate, Mikhail Ulyanov - Secretary of the Board of the USSR Association of Cinematographers, Anatoliy Kabulov - First Secretary of the Board of the USSR Association of Cinematographers, Elyor Ishmukhamedov - film director, Vladimir Dzhanibekov - Major General, Soviet Air Force, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and others.
Within the framework of the "Day by Day" Festival program, a set of events took place, including press conferences, sightseeing in Tashkent, a concert of art masters of the Republic, meeting with creative youth, creative discussions, meeting of Festival participants and guests with filmmakers at the Uzbekfilm studio.
Film screening took place at the Palace of Arts. The program included the following feature films: Love Story (Bangladesh), Shiko (Brazil), Mirza's Shoes (Iran), Friend (Thailand), Bride for David (Cuba), Our Culture (Nigeria), Burke and Wills (Australia), Time of Leopards (Mozambique), etc.
The screening of the short films included the following: What have you done with the childhood? (Cuba), Neighbors (Cuba), Colors of a Winter Day (Armenia), Kolybai's Garden (Kazakhstan), Nicaragua Has Won (Nicaragua), People's Poet (Turkmenistan), Warble (Azerbaijan), etc.
The following Soviet films were included in the official screening: Embrace of a Dream, The Slavic Woman's Farewell, My Home in the Green Hills, Fragi - Separated from Happiness, When the Autumn Rain Falls, One More Night of Scheherazade, etc.
It's noteworthy that the Film Festival provided the film market functioning at the Republican Cinema House with producers, exporters, importers, distributors, owners of cinemas from more than 80 countries of the world taking part in its work. The film market presented over twenty Soviet films of 1985-1986 shown in the Cinema House, the Uzbekfilm studio and at the studio of educational and documentary films. Totally, the film market attracted film organizations from 11 African countries, 7 Latin American countries, 7 Middle East countries, 5 Asian countries, as well as those of European countries, Australia and New Zealand. More than 100 people from 48 countries worked at the film market.
The Film Retrospective event, organized within the framework of the Film Festival and aimed at demonstrating retro films to the young generation of filmmakers is of separate notice. The screening took place at the Iskra cinema in Tashkent. In total, the program included works made in the USSR, Vietnam, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Japan, Morocco, Australia, New Zealand.
The meeting of the graduates of the Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. Gerasimov, which became a good tradition, took place that year as well. The Cinema House hosted two exhibitions: "We study at the Russian State University of Cinematography" and "Colors of Africa" extra for this event.
Press conferences with filmmakers from Brazil, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, Georgia, Mozambique, China, Nigeria, Tajikistan, Syria, Japan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Pakistan, Niger, Patriotic Forces of El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Tunisia, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Peru took place.
During the International Film Festival, journalists had the opportunity to communicate with many outstanding directors, screenwriters and workers of culture of that time.