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Homage to Water at festivals in Central Asia
Janyl Jusupjan’s short film Homage to Water (Kyrgyzstan/USA) has been selected as a finalist at the Burabay Short Film Festival in Kazakhstan and will compete in the Ecology Films Section at the VIII Forum of Female Filmmakers in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Both festivals take...
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
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.
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Homage to Water at festivals in Central Asia
Janyl Jusupjan’s short film Homage to Water (Kyrgyzstan/USA) has been selected as a finalist at the Burabay Short Film Festival in Kazakhstan and will compete in the Ecology Films Section at the VIII Forum of Female Filmmakers in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Both festivals take...
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