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Editor's Column
Elena Stishova. Utopia with a criminal ending. [Утопия кончается криминалом]
The editor of «Kinoforum» shares her thoughts about the state of national tolerance and how this phenomenon is connected with the problems of national filmmaking.
Actualities column
Asya Bairozhina «Remembering everyone»
Sergei Kudriavtsev «Too bad I'm not a Kazakh»
Kirill Razlogov «In various contexts»
Rakhman Badalov «A chronicle of our times: post USSR»
These constant contributors to «Kinoforum» write about the last ten National Cinematography Forums, on history, on contemporary issues, on the future plans of the forum and also about how the faces of post-Soviet cinema are reflected in the program.
«KF» Premieres
Alexander Lipkov «I am an Uzbek»
Gulnara Abikeeva «What comprises a motherland?»
Yevgeny Tsimbal «Overcoming Post-Soviet post-cinema»
Russian and Kazakh critics and one Russian director reflect on the new film «Motherland» by Uzbek director Zulfikar Musakov and, in connection with this, the contemporary definition of the notions of patriotism and national pride.
Film, Film, Film…
«Dear KamaRa Kamalova» — director Ali Khamrayev reviews the film of his Uzbek colleague Kamara Kamalova, «The Road under the Heavens.»
«Don't wait by the roadside.» The critic Sergei Kudryavtsev reviews films of the Kazakh director, including Bolot Sharip's «Holy Sin» and Sabit Kurmanbekov's «Roadside».
Debut
Yevgeny Tsimbal reviews the film «Birds of Heaven», the full-length filmmaking debut of director Tatiana Firsova.
Letters from the Forum
Allow me to address myself to you…
Nikolai Khrustaliov, a critic from Estonia, addresses himself in a personal statement to the Uzbek director Yousup Pazikov, Kazakh director Rodion Kim, Ukrainian director Alla Pasikova and Alexander Shapiro.
Conceptions. Hypotheses. Fingdings
The filmmaking process in the NIS countries and the Baltics — 2005 [Кинопроцесс в странах СНГ и Балтии в 2005 году]
A review based on Kinoforum's tradition material, which gives comprehensive information about the various facets of cinematic life in the Post-Soviet countries in the year 2005. The material was prepared by Daria Borisova.
Valery Fomin «Wham, bam, thank you ma'am» [ПОМАТРОСИЛИ И БРОСИЛИ…]
This concluding article deals with the tragedy of Soviet cinematography in the period of post-war «one dimensional» films of Socialist Realism.
Author's Column
Lev Annensky «The Gatchina Mirror»
Irakli Kvirikadze «A short essay on my meetings with world-famous film stars»
Persona
Gulnara Abikeeva «The Kyrgyz Miracle: one of the great four» [Киргизское чудо: один из великолепной четверки]
Alexander Lipkov «Bolot Shashiev's Tulips and Poppies»
A Kazakh and a Russian critic tell about Bolot Shamshiev, a legend of Kirgiz cinema.
Info-Column
Alla Bobkova «EKAFILM» 2006. News from Belarus.
Gulbara Tolomushova «Artistic flight to Tashkent» — film news from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
Screenplays
«The Chosen One» A new screenplay by Rustam Ibragimbekov, which will be filmed by Roman Balayan.