Bishkek, named after the mythical and legendary Kyrgyz hero who unified the various Kyrgyz tribes, is the capital of Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous Central Asian country of seven million inhabitants, plus a million Kyrgyz citizens working in the Russian Federation.
Kyrgyzstan borders Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. It is famous for Lake Issyk-Kul, an inland sea, horse riding, national parks and cinema. Director Tolomush Okeev is the leading figure of the Soviet period. For the post-Soviet period, since
Kyrgyzstan gained independence in 1992, Aktan Arym Kubat Abdykalykov, director who won the Silver Leopard at Locarno (Le Fils adoptif- Beshkempir), was twice selected at Cannes and has attended the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas several times, either as President of the International Jury or as guest of honor for a retrospective of his films.
Bishkek, named after the Soviet military commander Frunze during the Soviet period, has grown like a mushroom in 200 years.
Kyrgyzstan borders Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. It is famous for Lake Issyk-Kul, an inland sea, horse riding, national parks and cinema. Director Tolomush Okeev is the leading figure of the Soviet period. For the post-Soviet period, since
Kyrgyzstan gained independence in 1992, Aktan Arym Kubat Abdykalykov, director who won the Silver Leopard at Locarno (Le Fils adoptif- Beshkempir), was twice selected at Cannes and has attended the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas several times, either as President of the International Jury or as guest of honor for a retrospective of his films.
Bishkek, named after the Soviet military commander Frunze during the Soviet period, has grown like a mushroom in 200 years.
- 11/28/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Will Butler is teaming up with his backing band Sister Squares for a new album, naturally titled Will Butler + Sister Squares. The LP arrives September 22nd via Merge, and as a preview, the artists have shared the lead single “Long Grass.” The band have also mapped out North American and European tour dates for later this year.
Butler began working with Sister Squares — Miles Francis, Julie Shore, Jenny Shore, and Sara Dobbs — several years ago, when he first began putting out solo music. “I met Jenny — my wife! — in college, the year before I joined Arcade Fire,” he explained in a statement. “When I needed a band to tour Policy, I asked [Jenny’s sister] Julie to join because I trusted her musically. And I asked Sara, Jenny and Julie’s childhood friend, because I knew she was super talented.” Meanwhile, Buter met previous Antibalas drummer Francis when his band opened for Arcade Fire.
Butler began working with Sister Squares — Miles Francis, Julie Shore, Jenny Shore, and Sara Dobbs — several years ago, when he first began putting out solo music. “I met Jenny — my wife! — in college, the year before I joined Arcade Fire,” he explained in a statement. “When I needed a band to tour Policy, I asked [Jenny’s sister] Julie to join because I trusted her musically. And I asked Sara, Jenny and Julie’s childhood friend, because I knew she was super talented.” Meanwhile, Buter met previous Antibalas drummer Francis when his band opened for Arcade Fire.
- 6/27/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Previously filmed 45 years ago under its original title, leading Soviet-era Kyrgyz literary figure Chingiz Aitmatov’s 1970 novella “The White Ship” gets a handsome new screen treatment in Artykpai Sunyundukov’s “Shambala.” This tale of a boy’s troubled childhood in a remote Tengri Mountains region is the Kyrgyz Republic’s Oscar submission. Its scenic beauty and production gloss certainly invite international exposure. However, some prospective outlets may find it .
Still best known abroad for his 1958 breakthrough novel, much-adapted romance “Jamila,” Aitmatov was fond of weaving folklore and mythology into his narratives of contemporary life. That tack is central here, as the titular juvenile protagonist clings to ancestral superstitions for reassurance as “progress” changes his world for the worse. Eight-year-old Shambala (Artur Amanaliev) is parentless, his mother having died, his father working as a sailor somewhere far away, possibly never to return. Nor does our hero have any playmates, living in...
Still best known abroad for his 1958 breakthrough novel, much-adapted romance “Jamila,” Aitmatov was fond of weaving folklore and mythology into his narratives of contemporary life. That tack is central here, as the titular juvenile protagonist clings to ancestral superstitions for reassurance as “progress” changes his world for the worse. Eight-year-old Shambala (Artur Amanaliev) is parentless, his mother having died, his father working as a sailor somewhere far away, possibly never to return. Nor does our hero have any playmates, living in...
- 11/10/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2022 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
- 9/29/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
With her debut feature film “A First Farewell”, Lina Wang won the Best Asian Future Film Award at the Tokyo international film festival and the Crystal Bear of the Generation Kplus section at Berlin this year. Born (1987) and raised in Shaya, Xinjiang, Wang studied at the Communication University of China in Beijing, before dedicating herself to the filmmaking.
The film centers on three Uighur primary-school children who live in a small village that borders with a vast desert. It’s an intimate and warm story about the small community, that is indirectly addressing some of the Uighur pressing issues.
We interviewed Lina Wang via mail, after the screening of her film at the Cinemajove festival in Valencia.
What makes the Uighur region so attractive?
More than one hundred years ago, the anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan wrote in his book “Ancient Society”, that the Tarim river is the cradle of the civilization.
The film centers on three Uighur primary-school children who live in a small village that borders with a vast desert. It’s an intimate and warm story about the small community, that is indirectly addressing some of the Uighur pressing issues.
We interviewed Lina Wang via mail, after the screening of her film at the Cinemajove festival in Valencia.
What makes the Uighur region so attractive?
More than one hundred years ago, the anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan wrote in his book “Ancient Society”, that the Tarim river is the cradle of the civilization.
- 7/19/2019
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
“For a woman the most dangerous place is home.”
(Kyrgyz saying)
If we look at the works of art discussed in classroom all around the world, one cannot help but wonder sometimes about the troubled history of many of these works and that they are now common knowledge of students of a certain country. Considering the provocation works like George Orwell’s “1984” or J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” posed at the time of their release (and still pose for some), they have over time found their way into the classroom, study halls and auditoriums of the world. However, in the context of their messages regarding conformism and oppression, their fame and reputation is much deserved. And in the case of Orwell’s dystopia, one need to look no further as the current state of the USA, the Nsa-scandal and the rise of national parties internationally to realize...
(Kyrgyz saying)
If we look at the works of art discussed in classroom all around the world, one cannot help but wonder sometimes about the troubled history of many of these works and that they are now common knowledge of students of a certain country. Considering the provocation works like George Orwell’s “1984” or J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” posed at the time of their release (and still pose for some), they have over time found their way into the classroom, study halls and auditoriums of the world. However, in the context of their messages regarding conformism and oppression, their fame and reputation is much deserved. And in the case of Orwell’s dystopia, one need to look no further as the current state of the USA, the Nsa-scandal and the rise of national parties internationally to realize...
- 9/26/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The HeiressesThe first few days of the Berlin International Film Festival have provided the kind of bounty of compelling premieres—whether just intriguingly idiosyncratic or genuinely good—that makes a festival an experience of rejuvenation, even amid grim or difficult subjects. A great example of the latter is Kazuhiro Soda's Inland Sea, a bountifully patient portrait of the dying margins of the old Japanese fishing town of Ushimado. It paints a humane but forlorn portrait of a town seemingly populated almost exclusively by the elderly and a cast of beautiful stray cats. The filmmaker and his wife interject themselves into the proceedings of this compassionate documentary often, so the presence of the camera soon becomes not ambivalent and analytic but rather a sweet-natured, deeply-interested observer. Invited along with his characters as they go about their often-lonely work of diminishing returns or show him the local sights, Soda creates a transitory...
- 2/18/2018
- MUBI
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