Cinema and Performing Arts
Blue Is the Colour of Resentment: The Other Side of the TaleDiana Ibatullina
Aigul Kulbekova: Building Cultural ContinuityAlfiya Kalmaganbetova
Kazakhstani Directors vs. the Classics
Alyona Timofeyeva
Kurak: Those Who Oppress, Those Who Suffer, and Those Who Turned Away
Cyrill Grishin
How Inclusive Theatre Survives in Almaty
Alyona Timofeyeva
BIFF 2026: Winners, Stories and Turning Points at the 4th Bishkek International Film Festival
Cyrill Grishin
How Koryo-saram Cinema in Uzbekistan Explores Identity, Memory, and a Vanishing World
Christina Inyakina, Olga Khan
The Woman Who Changed Uzbek Cinema: The Story of Kamara Kamalova
Kamilla Abdullaeva
A Film from Uzbekistan at the Berlinale: Directors on the Idea and Filming Process
Christina Inyakina
Review of the film "Parajanov's Lilac Wind"
Kamilla Abdullaeva
Bold and Independent: How Mark Weil's Ilkhom Works in Tashkent
Diana Ibatullina
BIFF-2025: What Central Asian Directors Brought to the Busan Film Festival
Diana Ibatullina
From Silence to Voice. How Female Images Changed in Uzbek Cinema of the 20th Century
Kamilla Abdullaeva
Venice Film Festival: The War in Gaza, Sokurov's Diary, and Jude Law as Putin
Diana Ibatullina
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