The Central Asia Program and the American Uzbekistan Association are inviting you for a film screening of Islamkhodja At the beginning of the 20th century there lived an enlightened, innovative,… Continue reading Film Screening: Islomkhodja
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Documentary Film Screening: “550 Years of the Kazakh Khanate”
with Mr. Andrey Khazbulatov, Director General of the Kazakh Science and Research Institute of Culture under the Ministry of Culture and Sports The documentary, based on a historical opus “Within the… Continue reading Documentary Film Screening: “550 Years of the Kazakh Khanate”
Cinema Club Film Screening: The Light Thief
Directed by Aktan Arym Kubat (Kyrgyzstan, 2010) The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines.… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: The Light Thief
Cinema Club Film Screening: Tulpan
Directed by Sergei Dvortsovoi (Kazakhstan, 2009) On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Tulpan
Cinema Club Film Screening: The Orator
Directed by Yusuf Razykov (Uzbekistan, 1999) A historical drama. The meetings and marches of the Red Revolution change the life of the poor Iskander. Because he knows Russian, he becomes an… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: The Orator
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… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Luna Papa
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,… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Daughter in law
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… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: White Mountains
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… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: You Are Not an Orphan
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… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: The Story of the Weeping Camel
Cinema Club Film Screening: Beshkempir
Directed by Aktan Arym Kubat (Kyrgyzstan, 1998) Aktan Abdykalykov made his directorial debut with this semi-autobiographical Kirghizian-French drama set in a rural Kirghizian village where young Adyr plays in the… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Beshkempir
Cinema Club Film Screening: Aksuat
Written and directed by Serik Aprymov (Kazakhstan 1997) Aksuat is the name of a village in Kazakhstan, where Kanat takes his pregnant wife Zhanna to visit his brother, Aman. Just… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Aksuat
Cinema Club Film Screening: Land of the Fathers
Directed by Shaken Aimanov (Kazakhstan, 1966) An old man decides to look for his dead son and bring his corpse back to bury him in the land of his ancestors;… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Land of the Fathers
First Turkmen Culture Club
Turkmenistan's rich culture is less well-known than those great empires who contributed to it, but Turkmenistan has produced its own fascinating - though under-appreciated - art, music, literature, and cinema.… Continue reading First Turkmen Culture Club
Cinema Club Film Screening: Pure Coolness
Directed by Ernest Abdyjaparov (Kyrgyzstan, 2007) Asema gets engaged to Murat and the two go to Murat's hometown, where the traditional Kyrgyzstani culture remains. One day, Asema learns of a plan… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: Pure Coolness
Cinema Club Film Screening: The Needle
Directed by Rashid Nugmanov (Kazakhstan, 1988) In the bleak filmscape of glasnost, The Needle stood out as a black sheep of a movie. The most playful and offbeat of the… Continue reading Cinema Club Film Screening: The Needle
