Overview of articles
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Sicko
A cash-strapped couple go to extremes to settle their debts in this bold and bloody satirical horror.Published on: -
You were standing on the shore
A gentle, minimalist elegy on longing and belonging shot in dreamy Almaty, Kazakhstan.Published on: -
Steppenwolf
A visceral, absurdist revenge thriller, embracing elements of the Western, set across the Kazakh steppes.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: -
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,…Published on: -
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 cPublished on: