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ALMATY — The Kazakh film “Bauryna Salu” (Adoption), the country’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at ...
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 ...
MUNICH — Poor Kazakhstan. First Stalin, now Borat. The world’s ninth-biggest nation in size might not be a mustache-free zone, and a popular Kazakh sport is indeed a version of polo using a dead goat ...
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,” ...
"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.
ALMATY (Reuters) - In perhaps the most unlikely praise yet for the misogynistic, anti-Semitic and fictional Kazakh TV reporter Borat's new movie, a leading newspaper in the real Kazakhstan dubbed it ...
Kazakh filmmaker Askar Uzabayev’s domestic violence drama “Happiness” snagged the Audience Award in the Berlin Film Festival’s prestigious Panorama sidebar, a good sign of its potential appeal in ...
So too, since earlier this year, do a slew of other favorites on a pair of popular child-focused stations broadcasting in Kazakhstan – U.S.-owned Nickelodeon and French-owned TiJi. For many ...