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National Premiere of The Prisoner of Wakhan
The national premiere of Janyl Jusupjan's The Prisoner of Wakhan took place in Osh, south Kyrgyzstan in the framework of the V Forum of Female Filmmakers of Kyrgyzstan run by Asel Juraeva. Many migrants from the Murhgab region of Tajikistan participated. Murghab was...
Atirkül in the Land of Real Men at East Doc
Atirkül in the Land of Real Men, 65', is at East Doc Platform in Prague. Atirkül in the Land of Real Men, 65 min. more info here.
The Prisoner of Wakhan at One World, Prague
Janyl Jusupjan's feature documentary The Prisoner of Wakhan is selected to the Right to Know program of One World International Film Festival 2023. For screening details press here.
Dumplings for Broken Heart
with Helen Faller
Why Protect the Kyrgyz Horse
with Jacqueline Ripart
Helicopter filmmaking
with Andrea Kuhn
Felt and Art
with Lizzy Mayrl
“My Friend the Last Khan of Central Asia”
with Bernard Repond
Losing Your Country (and Finding the Other)
with Dildora Damisch
Confessions of Nomad Booktivist
with Filip Noubel
ABOUT JJ
Janyl Jusupjan was born in Kyrgyzstan, and studied literature in Kazakhstan. She worked as a journalist at Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty, Prague before embarking on independent documentary filmmaking in 2015. Janyl studied film at Cinedoc Formation and Les Ateliers Varan in France. In 2016, her first feature documentary Letters from the Pamirs premiered at Traces de vies in France. Her second feature Prisoner of Wakhan is on an official selection for One World 2023. Atirkül in the Land of Real Men in post-production is her third feature documentary.
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National Premiere of The Prisoner of Wakhan
The national premiere of Janyl Jusupjan's The Prisoner of Wakhan took place in Osh, south Kyrgyzstan in the framework of the V Forum of Female Filmmakers of Kyrgyzstan run by Asel Juraeva. Many migrants from the Murhgab region of Tajikistan participated. Murghab was...
Atirkül in the Land of Real Men at East Doc
Atirkül in the Land of Real Men, 65', is at East Doc Platform in Prague. Atirkül in the Land of Real Men, 65 min. more info here.
The Prisoner of Wakhan at One World, Prague
Janyl Jusupjan's feature documentary The Prisoner of Wakhan is selected to the Right to Know program of One World International Film Festival 2023. For screening details press here.
Dumplings for Broken Heart
with Helen Faller
Why Protect the Kyrgyz Horse
with Jacqueline Ripart
Helicopter filmmaking
with Andrea Kuhn
Felt and Art
with Lizzy Mayrl
“My Friend the Last Khan of Central Asia”
with Bernard Repond
Losing Your Country (and Finding the Other)
with Dildora Damisch
Confessions of Nomad Booktivist
with Filip Noubel