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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Together with My Father

    A true-to-life story of the daily routine of a young Kazakh boy who after the divorce of his parents lives with his father and witnesses…
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  • Song from the Southern Seas

    A Kazakh village vendetta. Ivan is Russian, Assan is Kazakh, and when Ivan’s wife gives birth to a dark-haired baby, the jealous husband casts suspici
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  • Native Dancer

    New film by the maker of Schizo is a magic story of crooks in the Kazakh mountains. Natural healer has to leave her land because…
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  • Pure Coolness

    Melodrama with fairytale elements about an urban beauty in Kyrgyzia who is kidnapped during a visit to the countryside and then has to marry a…
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  • Headcharge

    Ritual dance between women, sheep and men. Intriguing work by Kazakh shamanistic punk artist Menlibayeva.
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  • Welche Richtung geht’s nach Hause?

    A documentary road movie about two Russian Germans who travel to their birthplace in Kazakhstan by train. They are looking for their identity and root
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  • Chouga

    Relationship drama based on Anna Karenina, the classic by Tolstoy, set in the nouveau-riche world of a rapidly changing and modernising Kazakhstan. Ch
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  • Strizh

    The young Kazakh city girl Ainur wrestles with life. Everything and everybody seems to be against her: school, family, her best friend. But Ainur is…
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  • De laatste halte / the Last Stop

    ‘Perestroika’ film with a critical (yet not social-realistic) look at society. A soldier returns to his home village and finds only chaos, decay and c
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  • The River

    Tablet, television and video games infiltrate Kazakhstan in this tranquil portrait of farm boys who are tempted to choose modernity over tradition.
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