On March 11, 2026, an online meeting with organizers and jury members of the CIS Interstate Television Film Contest of the CIS Member States “Flight of the Horse: Power and Grace” was held at the CIS platform.
During the event, organizational issues of conducting the contest were discussed, procedures for evaluating competitive works by jury members were considered, and the procedure for summing up the contest results was determined.
CIS Deputy Secretary-General Nurlan Seitimov joined the jury from the CIS Executive Committee. Addressing the meeting participants, he noted that the initiator of the contest, Turkmenistan, maintains an active position in the intercultural dialogue of the CIS countries and in the development of humanitarian cooperation.
He also stated that, supporting the Turkmen side's initiative, the CIS Executive Committee sent information about the contest to the governments of the Commonwealth countries with a request to bring it to the attention of interested organizations and creative groups and to facilitate participation in this creative project.
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The launch of the CIS Interstate Television Film Contest of the CIS Member States “Flight of the Horse: Power and Grace” was announced in February 2026.
Television and screen films of various formats, including documentaries, documentary-journalistic films, and essays, are eligible for the contest. The duration of the competitive work should be from 15 to 30 minutes, including credits, and the year of production is limited to no earlier than 2024.
The contest theme, “Flight of the Horse: Power and Grace”, was not chosen by chance. The Turkmen people are the creators and originators of the first domesticated horse breed in human history – the famous Akhal-Teke horses. In essence, horse breeding as a human activity originates with the Akhal-Teke. And at its origins stood the Turkmen people, who over five thousand years ago gave the world “heavenly horses”, as they have been called since ancient times.