with Helen Faller
Dumplings for Broken Heart
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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
Reviving Forgotten Epic Voice
with Daniel Prior
Treasures of Female Sufi Music
with Dr. Razia Sultanova
Grandma’s Magic and Dance
with Sashar Zarif
ABOUT JJ
Janyl Jusupjan is a Kyrgyz documentary filmmaker born into a lineage of oral storytellers and shamanic musicians. Her work honors ancestral memory and resilience, blending a nomadic Central Asian worldview with the contemplative aesthetics of French cinema.