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In turn, some Tajik directors worked in co-operation with Iranian companies. [4] On November 25, 2004, Tajikistan passed a "Law about Cinema," aimed at promoting local productions and films in Tajik language. [4] In 2006, a Tajik-Iranian film, Bihisht faqat baroi murdagon, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
Since Tajikistan's independence, Tajik cinema has grown into its own. Because of the Tajik Civil War from 1992 to 1997, virtually all of Tajik cinema before the new millennium was made abroad. Drawing from cinematic traditions in the East, West, and South (particularly from Iranian cinema ), Tajik directors have been able to create influential ...
Tajikfilm was founded in 1930 as a newsreel studio; [2] the studio released its first feature film in 1932 and its first talkie in 1935. In 1941, Tajikfilm merged with Soyuzdetfilm, only to reemerge in 1943. The studio produced films in both Russian and Tajik. [3] The studio is based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
The movie was chosen in the fall of 1999 to represent Tajikistan for a chance at the 2000 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. The film was a gentle, absurdist, road-comedy about a 17-year girl (Russian Tatar actress Chulpan Khamatova) in a small village who becomes pregnant after a travelling circus visits her town.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf's film Sex & Philosophy from 2005 was set and produced in Tajikistan, as was the film Angel on the Right by Jamshed Usmonov from 2002. Other Tajik movies produced in the past two decades include: Kosh ba Kosh (1993), Business trip (1998, documentary), and Luna Papa (1999, a joint project of Tajikfilm with some counterparts ...
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The Silence (Persian: سکوت, romanized: Sokut, Tajik: Сукут, romanized: Sukut) is an Iranian–Tajik film from 1998. It is directed by Iranian film maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The movie is about a little boy who has the onerous task of earning money for his family, but is always enchanted and distracted by music.
The Mayakovsky Theatre was a historic theatre in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. It was torn down amid protests in 2016. The edifice was designed by Pyotr Vaulin and built in the 1920s in what was then known as Stalinabad. It was the first building with permanent foundations to be completed in the future capital, and initially served as a ...