Kyrgyz cinema found international attention through the "Kyrgyz New Wave" of the 1960s and 70s, when directors like Tolomush Okeev brought Central Asian nomadic life to global screens. That tradition of quiet, landscape-rooted storytelling carries through to more recent work like Bakyt. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
The Adopted Son (known in Kyrgyz as Beshkempir) arrived in 1998 as something close to a cultural landmark, not just for Kyrgyzstan but for the broader wave of Central Asian cinema that was quietly finding an international audience in the decade following the Soviet Union's collapse. Kyrgyzfilm, the
Genre Drama
★½ — Bakyt (2017)
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