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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Sicko

    A cash-strapped couple go to extremes to settle their debts in this bold and bloody satirical horror.
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  • You were standing on the shore

    A gentle, minimalist elegy on longing and belonging shot in dreamy Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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  • Neican: “Western Cyprus”

    Incredible found footage rescued from old Chinese VCR tapes forgotten by contemporaneity.
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  • Steppenwolf

    A visceral, absurdist revenge thriller, embracing elements of the Western, set across the Kazakh steppes.
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  • A shadow of a boy

    Short film about a little boy lacking a female figure in his life. His first crush ends in tragedy.
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  • My place on the tricorne

    Very sensitive portrait of young people in post-Soviet Kazakhstan who have no ideals or ambitions.
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  • Stranger

    Three days filled with adventures of an American in Kasakhstan in which he is confronted with incomprehensible events.
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  • A Winner is Seen At the Start

    While staying in a sanatorium with her unstable mother and her younger sister, Mila (17) joins the new experimental swimming school. The accident
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  • Tri brata

    Latest film by Serik Aprimov is an ‘adult fairytale’ about the the dangerous dreams and illusions of youth in a Kazhakstan village torn between tradit
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  • 1997 (Rustem’s Notes with Illustrations)

    Nouvelle vague in Kazakhstan. Almaty is not Paris, but the story of young people discovering the new era and themselves is universal. The poetry of…
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