Festivals: call for entries

Reception of applications for Kazan International Muslim Film Festival is still in progress

 

On February 1, submission for the XX Kazan International Muslim Film Festival started. The submission will last till June 1, 2024. The Selection Committee will finish its work by the beginning of July. After this, the official selection will be announced.

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ALTERNATIVA FILM PROJECT call for entries: Development Lab

 

Deadline: 28.04.2024

Bukhara, Almaty and online, June-October 2024

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Kyrgyz Serial: The contest of scripts (2024_kg)
 
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Home Film News Film «Pencil against ants» of Kyrgyz director Mirlan Abdykalykov will take part in Rotterdam International Film Festival
Wednesday, 08 December 2010 12:04

Film «Pencil against ants» of Kyrgyz director Mirlan Abdykalykov will take part in Rotterdam International Film Festival
 
Short film «Pencil against ants» of Mirlan Abdykalykov has invited for participation in jubilee 40-th Forum of International Film Festival in Holland.
 
It will take place between January 26 and February 6, 2011.
 
Film synopsis: At one of village houses people are preparing for the wedding. It is nothing unusual except the strange young man who is observing woman drawing a line on the wall by the pencil against ants.  It is nothing interesting but he is a fiancé! Wedding night is a last night. In the morning daughter-in-low lives the husband’s house, which fell asleep in the center of the circle he had drawn before.  Who could step over the line and come in the hero’s circle?
 
P.S. Mirlan Abdykalykov graduated from Kyrgyz State National University, journalism department. He executed main role in films of Kyrgyz director Aktan Arym Kubat: «Selkinchek», «Beshkempir», «Maymyl». In 2008 he has created his own production studio «Selkinchek».   
 
 
Source: Gulbara Tolomushova, film expert, e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Photo: Film frame «Pencil against ants»