The XVI Eurasia International Film Festival has prepared a number of innovations for its guests. This year, along with the international competition, for the first time will be held a unique national competition. Here is what Gulnara Abikeeva, the festival 's program director, told about this event:

– For more than twenty years that have passed since the opening of the festival in 1998, a whole generation of Kazakhstani cinematographers has been formed, which grew up on the traditions of “Eurasia”. And if in the early 2000s we called our domestic program “Dynamically developing Kazakh cinema”, today Kazakh cinema has reached such a level that the national competition has been allocated for it. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it will compete with films that have participated and won at international film festivals, and films that have been successful with a wide audience. The time has come when we have such a movie being shot in Kazakhstan that is competitive in the world. And many people can only envy our national competition!

And you will be able to verify the validity of these words of the eminent film critic at our film screenings, which will take place during the festival at the Kinopark 16 cinema in the Forum Mall.

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