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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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Kyrgyz Cinema
Munabiya
 
Munabiya
 


 
Director: 
 Taalaibek Kulmendeev
Type of the film & format: 
feature full-length film, 4 K, RED EPIC
Director of photographer: 
 Mars Umarov
Editor: 
 Eldiyar Madakim
Production designer: 
 Abylkasym Ismailov
Costume designer: 
Abylkasym Ismailov
Scriptwriter: 
 Taalaibek Kulmendeev (The script based on the novel by Kazat Akmatov "Munabiya")
Sound: Nurlan Razakulov
Make-up artist: Taberik Yusupova
Composer:  will be 
Producers:  
Gulmira Kerimova, Farkhad Bekmanbetov, Taalaibek Kulmendeev
Line producer: 
 Ziyne Kasmankulova
Actors (main roles): 

 

Gulzinat Suranchieva, Meerim Atantaeva, Nazym Mendybairov, Saken Karabaev 

 

 
Budjet: 
  
Production period: 
from September, 2015
Length:
80 min.
Release: 
 2017
Synopsis: 

 

Munabiya - a beautiful image of a strong, independent and wise woman who had many trials, humiliations, insults. Very few people can maintain the honor and dignity in a society of total brutality. "Munabiya" - a love story of Romeo and Juliet in Kyrgyzstan, though not young heroes beloved and aged people. Story "Munabiya" written by Kazat Akmatov, Kyrgyz famous writer have awarded in Kyrgyzstan, 1979, as "the best story of the year."
Production: 

«Kyrgyzfilm», «Aitysh-film», «Shaboto film group»

 

 
Festivals: 
The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), 13-29.11.2015
The Tridens First Features Competition for debuting directors from around the world and a revamped Works in Progress