It is with great sadness that we have just learned of the death of our friend Safarbek Soliev on July 19, 2021.
He was a member of the Jury at the 14th International Festival of Asian Cinemas in Vesoul in 2008 where he was paid homage in a retrospective (Achaglon, L’Alliance, Nissour, Waiting Calendar, …). Along with Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov, Jamshed Usmanov and Iskandar Usmonov, he was one of the filmmakers behind the rebirth of post-Soviet Tajik cinema and the ensuing civil war. We had the pleasure of seeing him again during the Golden Tulip Festival in Dushanbe in November 2019 where we were members of the jury. At this cruel time, we offer our sincere condolences to his wife, family and the entire film world of Tajikistan.
Pax Aeterna.
In Memoriam: Safarbek Soliev
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Panos Kotzathanasis
Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.
Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.
Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.
