ALMATY (Reuters) - The biggest film to come out of Kazakhstan in a decade aims to get the country's younger generation excited about its ancestry and history. "Myn Bala" (meaning 'a thousand boys' in ...

The comedy ‘Ruyn kim’ (meaning ‘What family are you from?’) sought to poke fun at the prejudices that remain widespread in ...

Meet Oraz! Last year while on the film festival circuit, I met a young film critic named Oraz Kereibayev. We quickly became friends, hanging out at the Venice and Berlin Film Festivals. Oraz is from ...

Kazakhstan has submitted Askhat Kuchinchirekov’s coming-of-age tale Bauryna Salu to the Best International Feature Film category of the 97th Academy Awards, after it won best film at the country’s ...

"Glory will be yours!" Janus Films has debuted a brand new trailer for the 4K restoration of a lost Kazakh war epic film titled The Fall of Otrar. The story is based on actual history following ...

After many years of separation from his parents, a boy named Ersultan is finally reunited with his family. But rather than being received joyfully, he gets a cold reception, treated like a stranger.

Two films from Japan, Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” and Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s “Evil Does Not Exist,” won the top prizes at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards on Friday. Multiple other honors went to films ...

The period movie Dawn of the Great Steppe, directed by celebrated filmmaker Akan Satayev, gathered full halls in Kazakhstan’s cinemas. The movie tells the story of Kasym Khan, a 16th century leader ...

Kazakh cinema is gaining recognition this autumn, with three highly regarded films nominated for the 16th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) in Gold Coast, Australia on November 3. Furthermore, other ...