Festivals: call for entries

Open Call: Script Lab in Almaty

 

Deadline: 07.08.2025

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Alternativa invites: Impact Distribution Lab

 

Deadline: 30.09.2025

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Almaty Series Festival and Series Mania Open New Horizons

 

Almaty, Kazakhstan / September 22-26, 2025

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Saturday, 29 March 2025 00:00

XII Forum of Young Cinema "Umut - 2025": Opening film_kg
 
Opening film: «Don't Cry, Rhinoceros!»
Opening: 11.04.25 at 2 pm in Ala-Too cinema, Bishkek
Dates of Forum Umut: April 10-14, 2025 
Place: Bishkek, Kyrgystan
 
 
«Don't Cry, Rhinoceros!», 1994, Maek-film, Kyrgyzstan, 30'
Producers: Petr Eliferenko, Maria Abakirova
Script & direction: Temir Birnazarov
DoP: Sapar Koichumanov
Starring: Kubanychbek Kasmakunov
 
Festivals & awards:
 
 ♦ Clermont-Ferrand Int.Short Film Festival, France, 1995: FIPRESCI award & Special Youth Award
 
 ♦  Montecatini Int. Short Film Festival, Italy, 1995: Silver Cup, main award
 
 ♦ Villa do Condo Int.Short Film Festival, Portugal. 1995: Diploma
 
Synopsis. A small lonely boy is as dispirited as the rhinoceros in "The last tear" by Polish sculptor, W. Frycz. The boy dreams about the love he needs in order to live.