17:01, 21 октября 2020, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Anastasia MOKRENKO
Two Kyrgyz documentaries will be screened at Russia Open Festival of Documentary Films, which will be held in Yekaterinburg on November 23-28. Website of the film forum reports.
Slippery Road film — diploma work of the student of the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University Gulnara Aitmamatova — is included in the competition among general screen documentaries, Sunflower film, directed by Chyngyz Sulumbekov — in the competition of television documentaries.
At least 435 works were submitted for the competition in 2020. About 55 films were selected for the festival program: 31 general screen and 24 television documentaries.
Russia Open Festival of Documentary Films has been held since 1988. The main goals are the promotion of non-fiction cinema, formation of its high socio-cultural status, preservation of a single cinematic space on the territory of the countries of the former Soviet Union, establishment and development of creative contacts.