Wikipedia's first sentence called it “annual event which provides a forum for muslim filmmakers”. Today it says “kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the ta”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “The International Festival of Muslim Cinema”. It now reads “Redirect to: Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema#”.
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Golden Minbar» is an annual event which provides a forum for Muslim filmmakers . It is a showcase for Islamic Cinema and Muslim Cinema .1It provides a place of regular meetings and an exchange of experience of further cooperation among filmmakers of Russia and the Muslim countries and the entire world.2The festival is open to not only Muslims, but also the representatives of other faiths creating films, popularizing universal spiritually-moral and cultural traditions.3The purpose of the festival is creation of objective representation in Russian and the world community about Islam and Muslims.4The high award of the festival is the «Golden minbar» statuette worked out as a reel of cine-film with the ends transforming into the waves carrying the ark with a minbar - a place from where the imam preaches-.5
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The International Festival of Muslim Cinema Golden Minbar is an annual event which provides a forum for Muslim filmmakers . It is a showcase for Islamic Cinema and Muslim Cinema . It provides a place for meetings and an exchange of experience among the filmmakers of Russia , the Muslim countries and the world. The festival is open to not only Muslims, but also the representatives of other faiths creating films. The high award of the festival is the Golden Minbar statuette in the shape of a reel of cine-film with the ends transforming into the waves carrying the ark with a Minbar - a place from where the Imam preaches.
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The Golden Minbar International Festival of Muslim Cinema was an annual film festival held in Kazan , the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan , providing a forum for Muslim filmmakers from around the world.Founded in 2005, the festival is a showcase for Islamic and Muslim cinema , and issues a series of awards in various categories.It later changed its name to Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “annual event which provides a forum for muslim filmmakers”. Today it says “kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the ta”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “The International Festival of Muslim Cinema”. It now reads “Redirect to: Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema#”. Read the current article and compare.
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annual event which provides a forum for muslim filmmakers
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kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the ta
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