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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Kyrgyz Cinema
Shayke

 

Shayke
 

 
Director: 
 Nayzabek Sydykov
Type: 
feature full-length film
Director of photographer: 
  Sapar Koichumanov
Editor: 
  Nayzabek Sydykov
Production designer: 
 Jamalbek Kozhakhmetov
Composer: 
 Maksat Sabyrbekov
Format&genre:  video, 16x9, stereo, feature film
Producer: 
 Rasul Kenenbaev
Line producer: 
  Ulugbek Muratbekov
Actors (main roles): 
 Aynura Kachkynbaeva
Budjet: 
low budjet film
Shooting: 
Autumn-winter, 2011
Length: 
74 min
Release: 
from 26.01.2012
Synopsis: 
 The film is about one Kyrgyz old woman. She is 96 years old. She is a real person and young film-director had shown her life through her own speach about her life with living picters from her life.
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