Festivals: call for entries

XIII Forum of the young cinema Umut-2026

 

Dates & place: 03.03-07.03.2026, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Organizer: Cinema Department with support: Interstate humanitarian cooperation fund
Participants: Ex-Soviet countries
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Call for Entries – 38th Film Festival Dresden

 

FILMFEST DRESDEN is looking forward to new short films! We are now accepting submissions for the 38th festival edition in 2026.

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Call for Entries – 43rd Fajr International Film Festival

 

I'm delighted to announce that submissions are now open for the 43rd edition of the Fajr International Film Festival, taking place from November 26 – December 3, 2025, in Iran.

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Tuesday, 01 October 2024 00:00

Post Space Film Camp - 2024

 

Dates: 20-26.09.2024

Places: Bishkek, Chon-Kemin, Kyrgyzstan

 

 

 

Ali Khamraev, famous Uzbek film-director

 

Without Fear, 1971, made by Ali Khamraev

 

 

 

 

 

Salt, 2020, made by Marat Sarulu




 

Young Uzbek female film-director Khusnora Rozmatova presented film "The Song Suskhotin".

 

Synopsis: In a distant village, a merciless drought reigns, because it has not rained for many months. The villagers perform various ancient rituals to get out of this scourge and misery. But the drought does not abate. People are suffering without knowing who tell about their pain. At such  a moment. Ahbor, a farmer official, goes to the village in search of a friend. Ahbor. who ran the society withhout leaving his office, encounters an unexpected case in the village: an underage girl has been raped. Her father, all the villagers and even the mullahs keep this egregious crime in secret. Usman, who wrote an artile about this injustice, is imprisoned as a slanderer. Ahbor tries to use his reputatian to save his friend Usman. But he has no power over the system he has created from the comfort of his office.