Reviews

The Odyssey review – a magnificent feat of storytelling
Shoot The People review – a powerful tribute to the camera as witness
Evil Dead Burn review – struggles to stay alight
The Last One For The Road review – loose, funny and melancholy
Our Hero, Balthazar review – perceptive dark comedy
Rosebush Pruning review – a dark-hearted, button-pushing hoot

Features

Beating Heart: Discovering the Cinema of Kyrgyzstan
John Waters: ’I’ve always been a les bro‘
Evil Dead Burn | Rosebush Pruning | Fists in His Pockets (1965)
Summertime Solitude: The Green Ray at 40
3 Weeks After – first-look review
Five Years, Four Months – first-look review

Contributor Bishkek International Film Festival

Beating Heart: Discovering the Cinema of Kyrgyzstan

by Hugo Emmerzael

Inside the grassroots community of programmers, critics and filmmakers working for the Bishkek International Film Festival who aim to put Kyrgyzstan on the cinematic map.

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The Odyssey review – a magnificent feat of storytelling

Shoot The People review – a powerful tribute to the camera as witness

Evil Dead Burn review – struggles to stay alight

The Last One For The Road review – loose, funny and melancholy

Our Hero, Balthazar review – perceptive dark comedy

Rosebush Pruning review – a dark-hearted, button-pushing hoot

Beating Heart: Discovering the Cinema of Kyrgyzstan

John Waters: ’I’ve always been a les bro‘

Evil Dead Burn | Rosebush Pruning | Fists in His Pockets (1965)

Summertime Solitude: The Green Ray at 40

3 Weeks After – first-look review

Five Years, Four Months – first-look review

Beating Heart: Discovering the Cinema of Kyrgyzstan