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Scream (2023 Film)
''Scream'' ( Kazakh: ''Айқай'') is a 2023 Kazakh drama film directed by Kenzhebek Shaikakov. It explores the impact of nuclear testing on a small village, highlighting the struggles and resilience of its inhabitants through a touching father-son narrative. The film was shot in the picturesque village of Shingozha, located in the Abai Region. It got official selections at 28th Busan International Film Festival, 30th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, Taipei Film Festival 2024 and 2nd Eikhoigi Imphal International Film Festival. Plot Melis and his son Zhalgas live a carefree life. They are residents of a small village near a nuclear testing area. Zhalgas looks forward to the day of the nuclear test. The reason is that, on those days, he is exempted from studying at school. It seems that even adults do not understand the dangers and consequences of this nuclear test. Cast * Orynbek Shaimaganbetov as Melis * Arnur Akram * Zhandarbek Ayubay Release The film h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazakh Language
Kazakh is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by Kazakhs. It is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz and Karakalpak. It is the official language of Kazakhstan, and has official status in the Altai Republic of Russia. It is also a significant minority language in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China, and in the Bayan-Ölgii Province of western Mongolia. The language is also spoken by many ethnic Kazakhs throughout the former Soviet Union (some 472,000 in Russia according to the 2010 Russian census), Germany, and Turkey. Like other Turkic languages, Kazakh is an agglutinative language and employs vowel harmony. Kazakh builds words by adding suffixes one after another to the word stem, with each suffix expressing only one unique meaning and following a fixed sequence. ''Ethnologue'' recognizes three mutually intelligible dialect groups: Northeastern Kazakh—the most widely spoken variety, which also serves as the basis for the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
28th Busan International Film Festival
The 28th Busan International Film Festival () opened on October 4 at the Busan Cinema Center in Busan, South Korea. Song Kang-ho of ''Parasite (2019 film), Parasite'' fame welcomed filmmakers as host of the festival, while Park Eun-bin acted as the moderator of the ceremony, which was broadcast live on YouTube channel and Naver TV. Opening with South Korean film ''Because I Hate Korea'' by Jang Kun-jae, 269 films were screened, including 209 officially invited films from 69 countries and 60 community beef screenings. Jung Sung-il (director), Jung Sung-il, South Korean film critic, director and screenwriter served as chairman of the jury for its main competition section. BIFF this year opened special program, ‘Renaissance of Indonesian Cinema’ paying attention to Indonesia with 7 feature films and 5 short films, including a series to be released on Netflix. Chow Yun-fat, a Hong Kong star, received the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award, whereas Yoon Jeong-hee posthumously recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesoul International Film Festival Of Asian Cinema
The Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema () is an annual special-interest film festival focusing on the cinemas of Asia. The festival is held annually in Vesoul, France. It was created in 1995 by Martine and Jean-Marc Thérouanne who have been codirecting the festival since then. The highest award of the festival is the Golden Cyclo Award. Other awards include the Special Langues "O" Award, given by the French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations and the Emile Guimet Award by the Friends Association of National Museum of Asian Arts-Guimet at the festival. In the 17th edition of the festival, which attracted an audience of 28,700, three awards were given to the Chinese film "Addicted to Love" by director Liu Hao. The film took out the top award as well as the "O" and Guimet awards. The Golden Cyclo was shared with "P.S.", by Uzbekistan director Elkin Tuychiev. Selected pictures File:Médailles de la Francophonie.jpg, Martine Thérouanne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taipei Film Festival
The Taipei Film Festival (TFF; ) is a film festival promoted by the city of Taipei, Taiwan, through the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Taipei City Government. It was first held in 1998, from September 28 to October 5. Currently chaired by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping Bin, Taipei Film Festival is the only festival in Taiwan that offers a New Talent Competition for aspiring directors from around the world and a Taipei Awards competition for Taiwanese filmmakers. The Festival screens around 200 films from more than 30 countries worldwide. With approximately 100,000 attendants each year, Taipei Film Festival has become one of the most influential film festivals in the Chinese-speaking world. History Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the 2020 Taipei Film Festival was the first in-person film festival to be held that year worldwide. Competition sections *International New Talent Competition - Films in this section must be a director's first or second feature. **Grand Prize **Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Eikhoigi Imphal International Film Festival
The 2nd Eikhoigi Imphal International Film Festival took place from 6 to 9 February, 2025 at Imphal, Manipur. The festival had screened 53 films from India and abroad, spread across four venues in Imphal (Manipur State Film Development Society, Chandrakriti Auditorium, Tanthapolis Cinema and Kumecs Cinema). The opening and closing ceremonies were held at City Convention Centre, Palace Compound. There was also a competition in two sections - fiction and non-fiction. 11 feature films, which include seven international films and four Indian films, including one Manipuri film, competed in the fiction category. Events * Master classes ** Prof. Shyamal Sengupta on 7th February 2025 (The Fundamentals of Direction) ** Sean McAllister on 7th February 2025 (Filming Intimate Documentary) ** Shiladitya Bora on 9th February 2025 (Marketing, Distribution and Monetisation of Independent Films) ** Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni on 9th February 2025 (Exploring Storytelling in Shorts) * Panel Disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Films
2023 in film is an overview of events, including award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths. Warner Bros. and Walt Disney Studios celebrated their 100th anniversaries this year. '' The Super Mario Bros. Movie'' and ''Barbie'' were the only two movies that made $1 billion in 2023. A huge number of the year's films significantly underperformed at the box office, attributed to high budgets and low marketing due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best movies of 2023, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, "Though a year in movie releases is a small and arbitrary sample size, it's nonetheless clear that, at the moment, the art of cinema is in good shape in the United States. The overwhelming commercial success of two of the year's strangest big-budget films, '' Oppenheimer'' and ''Barbie'', released on the same day this summer, is an obvious sign of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
