Official website of “Altyn minbar” Kazan International Film Festival
On 5-9 September 2025 Kazan will be hosting the XXI “Altyn minbar” Kazan International Film Festival.
About Festival
Film Festival is designed as a contest for live-action films, documentaries and animations reflecting universal moral and spiritual values along with cultural traditions, carrying the ideas of peacemaking, religious toleration and humanism, regardless of national and religious affiliation.
The enduring Festival motto “Through the dialogue of cultures – to a culture of dialogue” promoting the ideas of peacemaking, religious toleration and tolerance, appeals to the representatives of different nationalities and countries considering the Festival as a platform for cultural exchange and dialogue.
2024 edition brought together 151 participants from 51 countries. 141 films were presented within the Festival framework, of them 51 are of a competition programme and 90 – non-competition and parallel programmes.
In 2025 the Days of Moroccan cinema will be held within the Festival in addition to the traditional competition and non-competition programmes. Opening and Closing Ceremonies are envisaged to take place in a new building of the Galiasgar Kamal Tatar State Academic Theatre.