DUSHANBE, October 16, 2012, Asia-Plus — More than 30 feature and short films as well as animated cartoons will be shown during the Fifth Tajikistan International Film Festival, Didor 2012, which is opening in Dushanbe today.
The festival runs through October 20 and movies from Tajikistan, Iran, Russia, the United States, Afghanistan, Switzerland, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Georgia and Azerbaijan will be shown during the festival.
Kim Ji-seok, member of the Busan Film Critics Association (South Korea), heads the festival’s international jury.
The Swiss Cooperation Office in Tajikistan and the Open Society Institute/Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan (OSI/AF-Tajikistan) have provided financial support for the Didor 2012 festival.
A parallel program includes a roundtable formally titled “Cinema in Tajikistan from the Point of View of International Critics: If There Is Hope for Future?”
Best motion pictures of the festival will be shown in Qurghon Teppa, the capital of Khatlon province.
Last year, best motion pictures of the International Film Festival, Didor, were shown in Khujand, the capital of Sughd province.
The Echo of Didor project was funded by the Swiss Cooperation Office in Tajikistan through the Regional Art and Culture Program, and OSI/AF-Tajikistan. The overall goal of the Echo of Didor project is to facilitate freedom of expression of cinematographers and film directors, as well as to ensure expansion of social participation of the festival to all regions of the country.
The First Tajikistan International Film Festival was held in October 2004 and the upcoming festival’s program furthers the concept of the first Didor festival, which was intended to be a cultural bridge between eastern and western cultures and remove any critical attitudes of the West to the East and vice versa.
