NOMSIZ is one of the few regional events where cinema ceases to be just a means of storytelling and becomes a space for exploration.
We tell you what awaits viewers in the next two weeks.

October 25, Saturday — festival opening (Kinoxona)

At 18:00 the official opening of the festival and the program presentation will take place. The organizers promise a surprise film, and at 19:00 French director Théo Deliyannis will present his film “Syros Diary.”
“This is a diary musical, full of humor and ironic reflection on the nature of cinema. Curator and great connoisseur of various forms of unconventional filmmaking, Theo Deliyannis filmed ‘Syros Diary’ as an Instagram series,” note the organizers.
The screening will be in French with Russian subtitles, and the discussion will be in English. Tickets are available on the showgo.uz website.

October 26, Sunday — Moc Hub

At 14:30 director and researcher Maya Korbetskaya will conduct a workshop on the video essay format and on how the essayistic approach influences the perception of cinema and archival images.
At 16:30 — screening of the video essay series "Monographs", created by commission of the Asian Film Archive. Six films explore how moving images preserve collective memory and establish a dialogue between the past and the present.
At 19:00 — premiere of the film "Submission" by artist Alexander Barkovsky. A documentary story filmed in the Surkhandarya region, it tells of humility, faith, and happiness in spite of life's hardships. After the screening, a discussion with the author.
Admission to all events is free.

October 30, Thursday — Kinoxona, 19:00

“About Beasts and People” — a retrospective of films by Vladimir Tyulkin.
Tyulkin is an almost mythological figure: his films of the 1980s explore the boundaries between the documentary and the poetic, the animal and the human.

November 1, Saturday — Kinoxona

14:30 — "No-Budget Cinema," workshop by Oleg Karpov
17:00 — "Archive: Amateur Cinema of the Uzbek SSR"
Rare chronicles from private collections — home videos, chronicles, personal stories.
19:30 — "Central Experimental Cinema"
A program of short films from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan — the camera as a tool for observing the social, the personal, and the mythical.

November 2, Sunday — Kinoxona

14:30 — lecture by Alexey Artamonov on new forms of experimental cinema
The film critic will talk about how the language of cinema has changed in the internet era — from home video to AI-generated images.
17:00 — "Video Art of Kyrgyzstan," curator Gamal Bokonbaev
Young artists in Bishkek create videos from street noise, media streams, and personal archives.
19:30 — "Yo’l kira" 
New experimental cinema of Central Asia. A compilation program of short films by young directors from the region.

November 6, Thursday — Kinoxona, 19:00

"Wife Left" (1979), Dinara Asanova
One of the rarest films.

November 8, Saturday — Kinoxona

14:30 — Artist-talk by Theo Deliannis "Developing the Community" 
The Greek artist talks about how collective practices shape new forms of cinema.
17:00 — "Participatory TV", La vie plus belle project
Screening and discussion of one of the episodes of the large-scale reconstruction of the once-popular French TV series, in the production of which almost all the residents of Saint-Étienne are involved 
19:30 — "Yo’ldosh" — new experimental cinema of Central Asia
The second part of the young directors' program. 

November 9, Sunday — Kinoxona

14:30 — "The Shape of Water"
Films of the Summer School of the Uzbekistan Amateur Film Society (UAFMA)
17:00 — "Conceptualism Practices": video by Vyacheslav Akhunov
The legendary artist presents his archival video works.
19:30 — "Cartography of Memory"
Films of Saodat Ismailova's Workshop
21:30 — Festival Closing: “Dissolved in the Sun” (2024), Saodat Ismailova
The final film shown at the Venice Biennale: a cinematic meditation on the boundaries of body, light, and earth.
You can find details of the program and additional materials on the official festival page NOMSIZ.