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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
There is a certain inevitability about a film inspired by Hermann Hesse’s novel “Steppenwolf,” first published in German in 1927, and two famous Westerns of the 1950s — John Ford’s “The Searchers,” ...
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.
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 ...