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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Thursday, 23 September 2021 00:00
IX Forum of the young cinema Umut-2021: L'Amiral Tchoumakov - film of the opening
 
Dates: 20-25 September, 2021
Place: Bishkek, Ala-Too cinema
Time of the opening: 21.09.21 between 11.00 - 13.00
Second screening - Cinema House, 23.09.21, 19.00 - 20.04
Organizer: Cinema Department
Support: Interstate humanitarian cooperation fund
 

 

Film of the opening:

 

L'Amiral Tchoumakov, 64’, Belgium/France 2021

Directors: Laurier Fourniau & Arnaud Alberola

Synopsis:

On the shores of Lake Yssyk-Kul, 30 years after the fall of USSR, Boris Vassilievitch Tchumakov is the Admiral of the stranded fleet of Kyrgyzstan.

 

Laurier Fourniau & Arnaud Alberola

 

Laurier Fourniau is a French director of both fiction and documentary films. He studied at la Sorbonne in Paris, did an exchange program at UCLA Film school, and then completed his education at INSAS film school. Laurier Fourniau is also cinematographer, editor and music composer for most of his films.
 
Also from France, Arnaud Alberola obtains a master degree in cinematography at INSAS. He was named Best Young Talent Cinematographer of Belgium in 2019. Admiral Tchumakov is his first film as a director.
 
The world premiere of Admiral Tchumakov took place in Ischia Film Festival in Italy in July 2021, where the film won «best film», in the competition called «location negata».