August 23, 2024
Ruslan Akun's drama Paradise Under Mothers' Feet, about an adult man with a developmental disability and his mother's love, was selected as Kyrgyzstan's entry for the 97th Academy…
April 18, 2023
Aibek Daiyrbekov's The Smell of Wormwood won the Grand Prix of the international 'German Premiere' competition at a film festival in Bremen, Germany. The winner was chosen by a…
2017
Aktan Arym Kubat's Centaur, a Kyrgyz-French-German-Dutch co-production, screened in the Berlinale Panorama in 2017 and received the CICAE Art Cinema Award. The director also…
October 9, 2014
The US Academy included Sadyk Sher-Niyaz's Kurmanjan Datka: Queen of the Mountains among 83 entries for Best Foreign Language Film (87th Academy Awards). The film opened in…
May 15, 2010
Aktan Arym Kubat's The Light Thief, in which the director also played the lead, premiered on 15 May 2010 in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes. It later became Kyrgyzstan's…
2002
Since 2002 the studio has been called the Tolomush Okeyev National Film Studio Kyrgyzfilm. Okeyev started at the studio as a sound engineer; his diploma film was the lyrical drama…
