Politics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film
Discussion on Kazakh CinemaIntroduction: Peter Rollberg, Director, IERES, GWU Kazakh Cinema in an Historical Perspective: from Perestroika to Post-Borat Time Jean Radvanyi, Professor, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Cultures, Paris, France Politics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film Michael Rouland, co-editor of Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories (I.B.Tauris, 2013) Film… Continue reading Politics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film
Cinema Club Film Screening: The Story of the Weeping Camel
Directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni (Mongolia, 2003)In Mongolia's Gobi desert, a camel belonging to a group of nomadic shepherds gives birth to a white calf. It's a rare occurrence, and the shepherds watch as the unusually-colored offspring is rejected by its mother. Without its mother's milk, the calf will die. To save its… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: The Story of the Weeping Camel
Cinema Club Film Screening: You Are Not an Orphan
Directed by Shukrat Abbasov (Uzbekistan, 1963) The film is a touching story about an Uzbek family who gave shelter to 14 children evacuated during the World War II while their own child was at the battlefronts. The film depicts how children of different nationalities learn to live together as one family as it also brings out ‘Uzbek’… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: You Are Not an Orphan
Cinema Club Film Screening: White Mountains
Directed by Melis Ubukeev (Kyrgyzstan, 1964) Mukash is chased by officials, learns of the devastation of war from a blind woman and helps her daughter to freedom beyond the river crossing, he, having to choose a tragic solution.-Taken from MUBI.
Cinema Club Film Screening: Daughter in law
Directed by Khodjakuli Narliev (Turkmenistan, 1972) A woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband, a heroic pilot, might return one day. -Originally posted on IMDB
Cinema Club Film Screening: Luna Papa
Directed by Bakhtiyar Khudhoinazarov (Tajikistan, 1999) The unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Luna Papa
