"We Need a Hero" /Kyrgyzstan’s government bankrolls a historical epic meant to instill patriotism in a jaded and skeptical country.

by Bakyt Ibraimov, 21 August 2014

OSH, Kyrgyzstan | When Kurmanzhan Datka: Queen of the Mountains premieres at the Montreal World Film Festival this week, the audience will see the usual elements of an epic tale: the march of time, huge set pieces, majestic scenery, and a hero (in this case, heroine) who faces enormous odds and ruthless foes. Most will likely know little about the events it depicts.

Today in Vecherniy Bishkek: Gorgeous Marta

On the end of the June 2014 famous Hungarian film-director Márta Mészáros came to Kyrgyzstan for the shooting documentary "Face of My Mother" devoting to the memory of her mother, wife of famous sculptor Laszlo Mészáros.

Academy Awards: began nomination for Best Film made on the Foreign Language

The first of the them: Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan from Turkey.

Roman Polanski, the film Maestro at Locarno

© Guy Ferrandis

One of the most influential figures in film history, Roman Polanski, accompanied by the actress Emmanuelle Seigner, will be a guest of honor at the 67° Festival del film Locarno, where he will give a talk about film that is open to the public.

Soon coming...

Who will go to Montreal?

Montreal World Film Festival will be held from the 21st of the August to the 1st of the September 2014. I am very happy to know that the movie by talented film-director will be shown in one of the competition of the festival. Now I am writing the review on this movie. The festival ask to keep silent before the press-conference (10-11.08.2014) where it will announce the participants of competitions.

Today in Vecherniy Bishkek: Tattybubu Tursunbaeva - 70

She was born on the 12th of the Juky 1944 and died on the 21st of December 1981.

New reviews about movies made by Kyrgyz film-directors published in Kinokultura

Margarita Levantovskaya wrote about The Shakhta (2012) made by Nurbek Egen and Gulbara Tolomushova wrote about Herding (2014) made by Ruslan Akun. 

Adilkhan Erjanov: "How to make a movie without a budget?"