"Italian lessons" join Int’l Documentary Film Festival
By Amina Nazarli
"Italian lessons" film made by the Baku-born director, Tofig
Shakhverdiyev, is included in the competition program of "Russian
Flahertiana", which will be held within "Flahertiana-2014" film
festival.
This program includes best Russian films of Flahertiana aesthetics.
The 14th International Documentary Film Festival
Flahertiana will take place in Perm, Russia, from September21 to
28.
The heroine of the film "Italian Lessons" - a deaf-mute girl,
who sits on wheelchair - can't speak neither in her native Russian
nor in sign language. But this feature does not prevent her easy
and fun communication with the employees and the guests of the
hotel from different countries while on a vacation in Italy. The
film is about her and her buddy, a little boy who knows why some
children are born healthy and others sick.
Since 2006, the festival officially became an annual international
documentary film festival with international competition jury and
FIPRESCI jury.
The winner of the program is determined based on viewers' votes.
The festival prize fund amounts to 500,000 rub. Perm Krai
Government is the main sponsor of the festival.
Tofig Shakhverdiyev, the honored artist of the Russian
Federation, was born in Baku on September 12, 1938.
In 1960, he graduated from Taganrog Radio Engineering Institute and
in 1971 - Kiev State Institute of Theatre Art after name
Karpenko-Kary.
Shakhverdiyev is professionally engaged in photography, party personal exhibitions. Since 2006 Shakhverdiev has been teaching at the International University in Moscow.