On 8 September at his meeting with a Bosnian-born Serbian film director, screenwriter and actor Emir Kusturica and the Chairman of the Board of the Lenfilm Studio, producer, film director and actor Fedor Bondarchuk, who came as guests of the XIX Kazan International Muslim Film Festival held in Kazan, in the Government House of the republic, the Rais of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov thanked them for their attention of the Kazan Film Festival.
He stated that the festival facilitates development of the tourist attractiveness of Kazan and its awareness all over the world.