DUSHANBE, October 8, 2010, Asia-Plus -- Movies from 13 countries across the world will be shown during the Fourth Tajikistan International Film Festival, Didor 2010, to be held in the Tajik capital, according to the Tajik Branch of Open Society Institute/Assistance Foundation (OSI/AF-Tajikistan.

The source at OSI/AF-Tajikistan says works by filmmakers from Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, France, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will be presented in the festival that will kick off on October 12 and last until October 16.

The festival is organized under financial support of OSI/AF-Tajikistan and the Swiss Cooperation Office in Tajikistan.

The festival is dedicated to promote preservation of culture of cinema in Tajikistan and preservation of balance between secular and religious cultures in the region through cinema, the festival organizers stressed.

Besides, a special program of demonstration of new movies by filmmakers from the Persian-speaking countries is organized that provides a good platform for cooperation between the cinematographers of the West and the East and thereby, the environment promoting growth for freedom for creative work and civil initiatives is formed, bringing equal benefit to all countries participating in the festival.

A parallel program will include a roundtable meeting, Young Cinema of Central Asia, to discuss issues related to training of cinema personnel, establishment of the regional foundation for implementation of the best projects of young cinematographers, and creation of the single website.

Besides, retrospective of movies by known Tajik filmmaker Boris Kimyagarov, dedicated to the 90th birthday  of the filmmaker, will open on sidelines of the festival.

The Didor Festival project is implemented by the public association, Didor.

We will recall that the First Tajikistan International Film Festival 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.