Overview of articles
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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 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 accid
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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
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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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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 lea
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Sergelden
The only genre piece by Aprymov: a psychological crime story, based on Dostoevsky’s ‘The Meek’. This film does not focus on the d
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Two Were Riding the Motor Cycle
The first, short film Aprimov made as a student at the Moscow film academy. An episode from village life in Kazakhstan was filmed with amateurs, su
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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 cha
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Vocal Parallels
The Russian film diva and director Renata Litvinova, dressed in fantastic haute couture, in her own characteristic and humorous way, talks fragment
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Tulpan
Phenomenal landscapes, authentic acting and an exuberant feeling for refined humour make the first feature by Dvortsevoy about a nomad family on th
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