Atirkül in the Land of Real Men 2023    star_border 5.2
In the vast plains of Kyrgyzstan, men have been cultivating a group sport with a long tradition. The aim of the game buzkashi is to steal the trophy of a dead goat from the rival team of riders, all while staying on horseback. Into this tough masculine world enters Atirkül, a woman with an enterprising spirit and a sense of humour. The film follows the everyday life of the headstrong horse lover Atirkül, whose ambition is to build her own buzkashi team of local young men to preserve the heritage of her native region. The ethnographic perspective alternates with a purely personal one, gradually revealing the possibilities of overcoming gender roles

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The Admiral Tchumakov 2021
In northeast Kyrgyzstan, Lake Issyk Kul is one of the five deepest lakes in the world. On its shores, dark constructions of cement and steel appear as olds wrecks: it is the port of Balyktchy, today abandoned. Here lies the pride of an admiral of the Soviet navy.

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The Good Grain and the Chaff 2021
In a chic and bourgeois mountain town, migrant families live on the streets. Children join forces to hold on and maintain the illusion of a normal life.

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Half-Life in Fukushima 2016    star_border 6.6
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese farmer ekes out a solitary existence within the radiation red zone.

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Le Silence de la carpe 2011

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Moustapha Alassane, Cineaste of the Possible 2008
Moustapha Alassane is a living legend in African cinema. His adventures take us to the era of “pre-cinema”, to the times of magical lantern and Chinese shadows. He is the first director of Nigerien cinema and animation films in Africa. He tells very old stories with current technology, but he also narrates the most current events with the most archaic means. This documentary not only tells the adventure of a human being and an extraordinary professional, but the memories of a generation, the history of a country, Niger, in its golden age of cinema.

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