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 the winter pasture of the Kyrgyz nomads while Wakhan – the summer pasture before the area was divided between Russia, Great Britain, and China in the early XX Century.
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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.