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 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.