Overview of articles
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Neican: “Western Cyprus”
Incredible found footage rescued from old Chinese VCR tapes forgotten by contemporaneity.Published on: -
Steppenwolf
A visceral, absurdist revenge thriller, embracing elements of the Western, set across the Kazakh steppes.Published on: -
A shadow of a boy
Short film about a little boy lacking a female figure in his life. His first crush ends in tragedy.Published on: -
My place on the tricorne
Very sensitive portrait of young people in post-Soviet Kazakhstan who have no ideals or ambitions.Published on: -
Stranger
Three days filled with adventures of an American in Kasakhstan in which he is confronted with incomprehensible events.Published on: -
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 accidentPublished on: -
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 traditPublished on: -
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…Published on: -
Aksuat
A story about changing moral values in today’s Kazakhstan. The quiet and ordered life of Aman is disrupted when his brother from the city leaves…Published on: -
Sergelden
The only genre piece by Aprymov: a psychological crime story, based on Dostoevsky’s ‘The Meek’. This film does not focus on the disintegration of sociPublished on: