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From September 29 to October 5, the second international Avant Premiere Film Festival in Central Asia will take place in four Central Asian countries. Screenings will take place in Almaty, Tashkent, Bishkek, and Dushanbe, Fergana.ru reports.
Residents and visitors to these four cities will be able to see films that have not yet been released in the regional cinemas: festival releases, children's animation, documentaries, and classics of French cinema.
In Dushanbe, the film screening will take place from October 2 to 5 at the Premier Hall in the Siyoma Mall shopping center.
The festival will open with the film "François Truffaut: The Script of My Life" (2024). The film is based on unpublished interviews and letters from the director to his friend Claude de Givre, in which Truffaut dictated the outlines of his autobiography.
This is a rare opportunity to "hear" the master himself—his memories of childhood and adolescence, which intertwine with the themes of his films. The film reveals Truffaut as both an iconic auteur of the New Wave and a man for whom cinema became a personal chronicle of growing up and searching for freedom.
The program also included:
Jane Austen Ruined My Life (2024) is a romantic comedy about a French woman who faces a choice: succumb to the charm of an Englishman or discover true intimacy with an old friend.
"Maya, Give Me a Title" (Maya, donne-moi un titre, 2024) is a new animated project by Michel Gondry, where a child's imagination comes to life in cardboard fairy tales.
The Romance of Jim (Le roman de Jim, 2024) is a drama about how two strangers become a family and what happens when the past comes back into it.
The Last Metro (Le dernier métro, 1980) is François Truffaut's iconic drama, winner of ten César Awards. The story of an underground theater in occupied Paris became a symbol of resistance and the power of art.
The event is organized by the independent Tashkent Film School and the French embassies in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The festival is supported by the French Institute and the Center for the Development of National Cinematography of Uzbekistan.
