[2] The inaugural Golden Minbar International Festival of Muslim Cinema took place in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan on 5–11 September 2005.
[6] The Golden Minbar International Festival of Muslim Cinema is held in Kazan, and provides a place for meetings and an exchange of ideas among the filmmakers of Russia and from around the world.
[4] The main goal of the festival is "to promote universal cultural and moral values, as well as to form an objective view of Muslims and Islam both in Russia and internationally".
This was in the shape of a reel of cine film, which includes the waves carrying an ark with a minbar, the pulpit from where an imam preaches in a mosque.
[4] At the inaugural festival in 2005, The Magician, a drama by Azerbaijani director Oqtay Mirqasımov [az ], won the main prize.
[4] In 2007, The Peace Tree, by Canadian filmmaker Mitra Sen, won the award for humanity in the art of film.