CULTURE
"OUR UNKNOWN MOVIE" FESTIVAL SUMMED UP
On 2 August, at the party dedicated to the 105th anniversary of Azerbaijani cinematograph, summing up the results of the Second Festival “Our unknown movie” took place in the “Azerbaijan” cinema.
Prizes and purses of the Cinematographers Union was presented to short film by Shua Sheykhov “An Odd Story”, where starred such famous and favorite people’s artists as Bashir Safaroglu, Lutfali Abdullayev and Barat Shakinskaya, to documentary “The Nomads” and cartoon “Umid” (‘Hope’) by Elchin Akhundov.
Also were presented prizes to the most objective spectator Shahla Kamal and the impartial journalist, “Medeniyyet ” newspaper correspondent Jeyran Nariman.
The most active festival participants were granted the first volume of the “Catalogue of Azerbaijani Movie ”. A film of the first Azerbaijani filmmaker Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh “A Love Game”, dated 1935, was demonstrated along with 35 films, shot since1935 till 2002.