Cinema Club Film Screening: Kyrgyzland

This movie is about a small mountainous country with big problems and huge potential. Young heroes let viewers into their lives, lifting a curtain into multi-layered and contradictory life in Kyrgyzstan. These seven stories of love, decisiveness, courage, and virtue leave you feeling that you have made new friends and shared a warm handshake.

Elnura Osmonalieva is a promising independent filmmaker and producer. She came to AUCA in 1998 after a student exchange year in the USA as a FLEX program participant. Elnura won the International Almaty Film Festival “Shaken Zhulyzdary” with her documentary Almaz, and was the Main Award Winner at the Second Auteur Film Festival for young filmmakers of Central Asia.