Festivals: call for entries

Kyrgyz Serial: The contest of scripts (2024_kg)
 
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Call for entries: The VI Film Forum Of Women Film Directors Of Kyrgyzstan

 

Deadline: 01.03.2024

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XI Forum of the young cinema Umut-2024

 

Dates & place: 28.03-01.04.24, 2024, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Organizer: Cinema Department with support: Interstate humanitarian cooperation fund
Participants: Ex-Soviet countries
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Tuesday, 26 July 2016 00:00

Who will go to Montreal this year?

 

The 40th Montreal World Film Festival will be held from the 25th of the August to the 5th of the September 2016. 

 

We will inform about the movie made in Kyrgyzstan which was selected into the Montreal World Film Festival.

 

We would like to remind you that in 2014 in Montreal there was the world premiere of the film "Kurmanjan Datka", and in 2015 in Montreal there was the world premiere of the film "Under Heavens."

 

 

 

 

 Kurmanjan Datka - Queen of the Mountains by Sadyk Sher-Niyaz, Kyrgyzstan

in Focus on World Cinema, MWFF-2014

 

 

Kurmanjan Datka (1811-1907) also known as the "The Tsaritsa of Alai" or "The Queen of the South", was a stateswoman in Kyrgyzstan, known for her initial resistance to the annexation of that region by Russia. Kurmanjan was born into a nomadic family of the Mongush clan in the Alai Mountains. At the age of 18 she was supposed to be married to a man whom she did not see until her wedding day. When she met him, she did not like him and broke with tradition — first fleeing into neighboring China and later deciding to stay with her father, Mambatbai.

  In 1832, the local feudal lord, Alimbek, who had taken the title, "Datka", and ruled all the Kyrgyz of the Alai, was attracted by the young, vivacious woman, and married her. An instrumental politician in the increasingly decrepit Kokand khanate, Alimbek was murdered in the course of a palace coup in 1862 and Kurmanjan was recognized by the khans of Bukhara and Kokand as ruler of the Alai and given the title of "Datka". In 1876 the Alai region was annexed by the Russian Empire. Recognizing the futility of resistance, Kurmanjan Datka persuaded her people to accept Russian overlordship.
  During the subsequent continuing unrest and sporadic attempts by the local population to shake off Russian supremacy, gun-running and smuggling were profitable businesses and two of Kurmanjan's sons and two of her grandsons were charged with contraband trade and murdering customs officials. When her favorite son was sentenced to death, she refused the urging of some of her followers to effect a rescue, saying that she would not let her private hopes and ambitions be the cause of suffering for her people; she actually attended her son's public execution. The others were then exiled to Siberia and she essentially retired from public life. 

In 1906 she was visited by General Mannerheim (later President of Finland) and was given Russian honors. Kurmanjan Datka lived to over 90 and was survived by two sons, two daughters, 31 grandsons, 57 great grandsons and six great-great-grandsons.

 

 

 

 

UNDER HEAVEN by Dalmira Tilepbergenova: 

First Films World Competition at the 39th Montreal World Film Festival,

from August 27 to September 7, 2015". 

 

 

 

 

Two brothers - Kerim and Aman doing heavy business - mined from the quarry material for monuments on the graves. Older brother take the easy money that you can make a quick profit in trading drugs. Junior also wants to build a house and stay in their places with a modest girl named Saltanat. However, she falls in love with Kerim. But Kerim did not hesitate throwing the girl and went to the city.

 

Meanwhile, his father died and Saltanat wants to commit suicide due to pregnancy and Aman buries his father and saves Saltanat from dishonor, offering her to be his wife.

 

Returning Kerim cannot accept these changes. It is filled with jealousy and anger at his brother. His thoughts with words is enough to happen irreparable ...

 

 

Review here

 

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