IA “Tatar-inform” hosted a press conference on the XVIII Kazan International Muslim Film Festival. The meeting with media representatives was attended by  head of the department of networking, international and interregional cooperation Victoria Dautova,  executive director of the festival Milyausha Aytuganova. Nina Kochelyaeva, chairman of the selection committee, joined the conversation online.
We remind  that the Kazan International Muslim Film Festival is one of the largest film screenings, which has been held in the capital of Tatarstan since 2005. This year it will be held from 7 to 11 September with the support of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, the Ministry of Culture of Russia and in partnership with the Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group.
In total, 625 applications for participation from 44 countries of the world were registered this year. The selection committee of the festival has already made public the short list of works that made up the competition program. In total, 50 works were included – 10 each in five categories: feature films and short feature films, as well as full and short documentaries, a national competition.
Nina Kochelyaeva emphasized that the aim of the festival is to show the diversity of topics that excite contemporary directors. “Of course, these are mainly topics related to ethnic and religious, as well as global values, such as family, friendship, coexistence of people in peace and harmony, good neighborliness of different peoples,” she stressed.