1998
Aktan Abdykalykov's (Aktan Arym Kubat) Beshkempir won the Silver Leopard at the 1998 Locarno Film Festival. It became Kyrgyzstan's first Oscar submission (71st Academy Awards) but…
1966
Andrei Konchalovsky's The First Teacher (1965), made at Kirgizfilm, received a silver medal at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, and Natalya Arinbasarova won the Volpi Cup for Best…
1960
Film scholars use the term 'Kyrgyz miracle' for the rapid rise of Kyrgyz cinema in the 1960s. Films of the period include Larisa Shepitko's Heat (1963), Bolot Shamshiev's…
November 17, 1941
From 1939 Frunze hosted a correspondent point of the Tashkent branch of the Soviet newsreel agency. On 17 November 1941 it became the Frunze Newsreel Studio. In 1956 it was…
