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 ...
"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 ...
In an effort to prove that Kazakhstan is not as culturally behind the times as Borat made it out to be, Kazakh director Erkin Rakishev is developing My Brother, Borat as a comeback to Sacha Baron ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
On November 15, the Kazakhstani film “Bauryna Salu” was accepted as a candidate by the Academy Awards in the Best International Feature category. The film tells the story of a 12-year-old boy named ...
While the war in Ukraine has upended global geopolitics and ratcheted up tensions between Russia and the West, the impact has been especially profound across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where ...
A joint Korean-Kazakh film directed by a Goryeoin, or an ethnic Korean from Central Asia, will be released in Kazakhstan late this month. Yonhap News of Korea on March 13 quoted Koryo Business ...