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Why Chaï Latte & Salt

Why Chaï Latte & Salt

Janyl is from Ala-Too mountains in Kyrgyzstan on the border with China. Her mother used to prepare tea with milk and salt. It is a beverage for "extreme tea lovers" (чай для экстремалов), as one traveler put it. The podcast Chaï Latte & Salt brings you similarly...

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ABOUT JJ

Janyl, Chukotka

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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Why Chaï Latte & Salt

Why Chaï Latte & Salt

Janyl is from Ala-Too mountains in Kyrgyzstan on the border with China. Her mother used to prepare tea with milk and salt. It is a beverage for "extreme tea lovers" (чай для экстремалов), as one traveler put it. The podcast Chaï Latte & Salt brings you similarly...

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