Lovely piece of Kyrgyz poetic realism about a shepherd working in the mountains, herding sheep, talking with his family.
The creation of a national cinema in Kyrgyzstan is customarily attributed to Bolotbek Shamshiev, Tolomush Okeev and Melis Ubekeyev whose protagonists are common men with everyday joys and sorrows. But the most important force behind Kyrgyz cinema is a writer ...
The Kyrgyz epic, Manas, and its oral tradition as told by one of its tellers (the manaschi), Sayakbay Karalaev, who describes what a manaschi is, the year of the Kyrgyz people’s freedom movement (1916, as a 20-year-old witness), the ‘Song about Sametey,’ the son of Manas who becomes a symbol of rebirth and unity for the Kyrgyz, and finally, the ordinary, routine life of Karalae...