Inna Smailova, a film critic, candidate of art history, member of the selection committee of the festival, tells about the films presented in the program of the National Competition of the XVI Eurasia IFF.

– The events of the last two or three years show that the reality around us is completely unpredictable, and it is all the more interesting to observe how our filmmakers address this variability of the world. It is worth noting that many films of the competition have already visited the world film sites: Akyn is the winner of the Tokyo Film Festival, Scheme is the winner of Berlin, Life is a participant of the Toronto festival. Paralympian, Fire, Otau, Mom, I'm alive! and others were also successful.

This program also became a handshake of generations of great artists, for example, the master of the Kazakh New Wave Serik Aprymov, who presented his new picture Auyl, and the young and talented Alisher Jadigerov with the film Otau. Rethinking the view of history and personality in the film Mukagali by the famous cinematographer Bolat Kalymbetov intersects with the film by Yana Skopina Summer will end soon, which became the full-length debut of the author. The family history unites the films Sunflower by Elya Gilman and Fire by Aizhan Kassymbek. Next to them are experimental works: the conditional world of a compositionally built society in the film Life by Emir Baygazin, the free-spirited Mountain Bow by Eldar Shibanov, the bright static-visual art texture Zere by Dauren Kamshybayev, the energy of the films Mama, I'm Alive! by Aziz Zairov and Mukhammed Mamyrbekov and Red pomegranate by Sharipa Urazbayeva.

 And the movies presented at the competition are remarkable in that the authors in their works raise the question of the ethical and moral responsibility of society to a person, and not vice versa, in a changing reality.