DUSHANBE, September 28, 2010, Asia-Pus — Movie entitled “Qiyomi Rouz” (True Noon) by Tajik filmmaker Nosir Saidov has won the Fukuoka Audience Award at the “Focus on Asia — Fukuoka International Film Festival 2010” that took place in Fukuoka, Japan from September 17 to September 26, the Tajik MFA information department said.
According to the film festival’s website, the Fukuoka Audience Award was awarded based on the results of a five grade evaluation audience vote taken during the first exhibition of all 21 eligible titles on September 18-20.
The movie features a story about the border of Tajikistan. One day, a peaceful mountain village suddenly awakens to a national border set in the center of the village. The film depicts the silent resistance of the villagers who plan to marry a young couple in 2 days. Soon they learn that the obstacle is not just the national border…
Speaking at the Award Ceremony, Nosir Saidov said, “My film centers on a story about the border of Tajikistan. Yet this is not a theme than only Tajikistan has. That is because borders exist with every nation. So this theme applies to every human being in the world. Above all what I wanted to depict is not limited to this type of border but also the border created between human beings. In the olden days people in Tajikistan had a pure heart of greeting even strangers with a smile, but now they treat such people with suspicion. I fear this is the same in other countries as well. What I want to do is remove this barbed wire entanglement within the heart to regain the human connection we used to have in the past. I would like to continue to stress the importance of such person-to-person communication in the future.”
