The Czech film "Owners" opens the 2022 European Film Festival in Baku
01.11.2022 / 14:06 | Aktualizováno: 15.11.2022 / 20:17
The 2022 edition of the annual European Film Festival in Baku was opened by the 14 November free public screening of the Czech film "Owners", with Azerbaijani and English subtitles.
The first “regular” European Film Festival in Baku since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was introduced by the Ambassador of the EU to Azerbaijan, Ambassador Peter Michalko. The Czech cultural attaché shared a message for the Baku audience by the “Owners” screenwriter and director Jiří Havelka, emphasizing the need for humanity to share planet Earth as a common house and “not kill each other in the process”.
The 2022 Baku European Film Festival takes place on 14-25 November, allowing the local audience to enjoy recent film production from 11 EU Member States and Ukraine.