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Days of Azerbaijani cinema to be held in Kazan

18 February 2021 [10:30] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Laman Ismayilova

Days of Azerbaijani cinema will be held in Kazan in March as part of Panorama film festival.

The Panorama Film Festival will run from February 21 to December 12. 

The film festival is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Assembly and the House of Friendship of the Peoples of Tatarstan together with "Tatarkino".

Azerbaijani cinema has come to be an internationally recognized modern art enjoying a huge popularity and recognition at international film festivals, which frequently award the national films.

Over the past years, more than 300 films and 1,200 documentaries, as well as hundreds of cartoons were filmed.

Shortly after the Lumiere brothers from France invented cinematography, an apparatus for making motion pictures in 1895, Russian photographer and cameraman Alexandre Michon began shooting motion pictures that depicted everyday life in Baku. 

The first short, silent film of Azerbaijani cinematography "You are caught" was shown in Baku on August 2, 1898. The audience witnessed a historical event - the birth of Azerbaijani cinematography.

To honor this historical day, the national leader Heydar Aliyev signed an order on December 18, 2000, to declare August 2 as professional holiday of cinema workers – Day of Azerbaijani Cinema.

At present, it is planned to carry out systemic reforms to develop and modernize cinema art in Azerbaijan. 

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