We just completed The Interim Country, our new documentary about Kyrgyzstan, exploring the reasons why this small, land-locked country in Central Asia made international headlines repeatedly in the spring and summer of 2010. Film crew: Thomas Lahusen, Gulzat Egemberdieva, Sergei Kapterev (Institute on Cinema Art, Moscow), André Loersch (Media4Democracy, Geneva). A page and trailer will be posted soon.

Recent screenings:

Oh, my Communist youth! (Int. FF “Zerkalo” in Ivanovo, Russia, May 2010)

The Photographer (28th International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal, March 2010; Int. FF “Zerkalo” in Ivanovo, Russia, May 2009; Globians
World & Culture Documentary FF, Berlin, August 2009; East Silver Market, October 27 - November 1, 2009)

The Province of Lost Film (Int. FF “Zerkalo” in Ivanovo, Russia. May 2009;
Int. FF in Berdyansk, Ukraine, September 2009).

Please have a look at “Our Guests” page. It features a new film by Talant Dzhumabaev, Kyrgyz in Turkey. The film is also available in our Chemodan online store.

Films

The Province of Lost Film

(2006-08) | Trailer

This is a film about memory and cinema in central-Russia.

Komsomolsk mon amour

(2007) | Trailer

A love affair with Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in the Russian Far East, its struggle with the past, and its hope for the future through the eyes of young people, aging Communists, former labor-camp prisoners, and the local avant-garde theater.

Uprising

(2006) | Trailer

This is a film in which women remember a major uprising of 1930 against the collectivization of agriculture in their villages.

The Photographer

(2008) | Trailer

This film explores the life and work of a local historian and photographer who preserved the history of his city in a photographic archive.

In Search of Roubakine

(in production)

Search of Roubakine Text

Harbin Echoes

(in production)

Harbin Echoes Text

A Kyrgyz-Canadian Chronicle

(in production)

Gulzat Goes to Canada Text

Oh, My Communist Youth!

(2010) | Trailer

Oh, My Communist Youth