International documentary festival, Didor, will take place in Dushanbe from October 16 through October 20.
The international jury members include Tajik known documentary filmmaker Georgy Dzalayev, Kazakh film critic and expert Gulnara Abikeyeva and Iran’s IRIB MEDIA distribution director Ali Reza Shahrukhi.
This year, documentary filmmakers from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States and Uzbekistan will present their works to audience and the festival jury. Most of them are women.
In all, fifty-seven documentaries have been selected to be shown during the Didor festival in Dushanbe this year. The documentaries will be shown at Zebuniso Movie Theater. Stories of many documentaries reflect problems facing women today.
A parallel program is expected to include a roundtable and meetings with filmmakers participating in the festival.
This year’s Didor festival is dedicated to the memory of well-known Tajik documentary filmmaker and cameraman Mamatkul Arabov, who was shooting the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945.
The First Tajikistan International Film Festival, Didor, 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.
