Festivals: call for entries

Alternativa invites: Impact Distribution Lab

 

Deadline: 30.09.2025

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Almaty Series Festival and Series Mania Open New Horizons

 

Almaty, Kazakhstan / September 22-26, 2025

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The upcoming Alternativa Film Festival will take place in Colombia in 2026, with Latin America as the focus region 

 

Guadalajara, Mexico, June 10, 2025 – Alternativa has announced that the 3rd edition of the Alternativa Film Festival will take place in Colombia in Q2 2026, with an expanded prize fund of120,000 USD (an increase of 20,000 USD from the previous edition) and a new award categoryfor a feature film from the focus region, bringing the total number of awards to seven. The opencall for submissions runs from June 10 to October 10, 2025. Feature-length films of all genresare accepted from Latin America and Asia, while the short film categories are reservedexclusively for Latin America.

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Tuesday, 04 June 2024 00:00

"Error 404": National premiere at the II Bishkek International Film Festival

 

"Bishkek International Film Festival" will take place for the second time in Bishkek from June 11 to 15, 2024. "Error 404" will be shown at the Central Asian competition.

 

 

Trailer

 

 

"ERROR 404"

 

National premiere at the Central Asian competition, Second Bishkek International Film Festival

 

Рsychological drama

Kyrgyzstan, 2023, 80’, Russian & Kyrgyz

“Kyrgyzfilm” National Film Studio named after T. OKeyev

Director: Tynchtyk Abylkasymov

Written by Marat Alykulov & Tynchtyk Abylkasymov

DoP: Zhantai Kydyraliev

Production designer: ElchibekShamenov

Editor: Azat Mamunov

Cast: Semetei Rysbaev, Begaiym Asanakunova, Bolot Tentimyshov,  Bolot Tilebaldiev

 

Logline: A young polygraph examiner firmly believes that technologies will replace humanity. When mistrust of the woman he loves creeps into his heart, he decides to test her with a Lie Detector.

 

Synopsis:

 

The main character, Emil, is 35 years old. He has a rare profession, an expertand specialist in the main tenance of the Polygraph, theso-called "Lie Detector". One day Daniyar, his tennis partner who is the director of a large reale state company, introduces Emil to his assistant Aida. Emil falls in love with the young, beautiful, and intelligent Aida at first sight. He takes care of her and Aida feels mutual sympathy for him. The love of two hearts logically moves to wards a marriage. One fine day, Emil invites Aida to a restaurant, and there, they accidentally see Daniyar with an unfamiliar young woman (meanwhile, Emil knows that Daniyar is married to another). Emil and Aida leave the restaurant to avoid running into Daniyar and embarrassing him. If Daniyar so easily allows him self to have an affair, did Aida have an intimate relationship with her immediate boss? Distrust creeps into Emil's soul.

 

Director’s BiographyTynchtyk Abylkasymov was born in 1986 in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Graduated from Kyrgyz State Institute of Arts, faculty of  Theatre and Cinema as TV and Film Director. Since 2005 worked in film industry on more than 25 feature films as Director, Actor, Line Producer, First AD, Editor.

 

Filmography:

2007 Short Film «I’m» (diploma work)

2010 The documentary film «Country and the Government»

2011 Short Film «Bakyt»

2015 Short Film «Syndrom»

2019 Short Film «On The Border»