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Mohammad Khazai: "We are very pleased that Uzbekistan pays great attention to the preservation and popularization of cultural heritage"
In Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the 42nd Fajr International Film Festival was held.
The festival was also attended by the screenwriter, a member of the Art Council of the Agency of Cinematography of the Republic Uzbekistan, and currently a scientific advisor of the World Society for the Study, Preservation, and Popularization of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan, Rustam Jabbarov.
Guests of the film festival familiarized themselves with the activities of Iranian cinema organizations and foreign filmmakers. The organizers arranged a trip to the Gazali film town near Tehran. Here, the participants were interested in workshops for costume production, as well as pavilions of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and contemporary history.
Guests from Uzbekistan also visited the Museum of Cinema History of Iran and acquainted themselves with artifacts related to the cinematography of this country and the activities of Iranian filmmakers. The Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mohammad Khazai, who noted that cultural ties between the two countries are developing, received the representatives of Uzbekistan.
Mohammad Khazai shared his impressions of the 15th Tashkent International Film Festival held in October 2023.
"We are very pleased that Uzbekistan pays great attention to the preservation and popularization of cultural heritage," he said. "The two nations are united by common historical and cultural traditions. During the film festival, we visited the office of the World Society for the Study, Preservation, and Popularization of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan and familiarized ourselves with the activities of the society. At the same time, we intend to continue developing our relations with this organization".
On behalf of WOSCU, the representative of the World Society, Rustam Jabbarov, presented to the Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran, Mohammad Khazai, a facsimile copy of the miniature of the great Persian-Tajik thinker Saadi Shirazi's "Gulistan", made in Samarkand in the 16th century.
