Uzbekistan to host XIV Tashkent International Film Festival

On the eve of the XIV Tashkent International Film festival "The Silk Road Pearl", which will be held on September 13-18, a press conference was held.

According to Firdavs Abdukhalikov, the director general of the film festival, a program full of exciting events awaits us, among the main ones: "days of the cinema of the SCO countries", "days of world cinema", "days of documentary cinema", "days of Retrokino", "cinema day of Uzbekistan", film forum of the international organization of Turkic culture, "meeting of heads of national film studios of the CIS countries" and educational program.

About 500 film artists, actors and actresses, directors and cinematographers, producers, film critics and film scientists, and media representatives from 40 countries, are expected to participate in this event. It is planned to show 150 feature films, documentaries and short films from world producers; more than 20 large-scale events related to film production, education, film screenings and the filming process will take place.

Among the stars of the film festival are Takeshi Kitano, Armand Assante, Burak archivist, Sergey Bezrukov and many others. There will be creative meetings with cult directors, actors and outstanding cinematographers of our time.

One of the key directions of the film festival is the "days of the cinema of the SCO countries", timed to coincide with the summit of the leaders of the SCO member states, which will be held on September 15-16 in Samarkand. The delegations of the participating countries will have "cinema days" in Tashkent, the regions of Uzbekistan and Karakalpakstan.

Within the framework of the world cinema days, 22 countries in Asia, America and Europe will show their best films: Azerbaijan, Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, Great Britain, Germany, Georgia, Egypt, Israel, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Turkmenistan, Turkey, France, Estonia, South Korea, Japan.