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Radical Hopefulness

Dear Hurum
Hayot Abdullaeva, Uzbekistan, 2024, 5 min. Uzbek, Russian with English subtitles

64 пункта почему все пошло не так (64 reasons why everything went wrong)
Dilnaz Abraimova, Kazakhstan, 2023, 17 min., Russian with English subtitles 

Alone in a Dance for Two
Mehrangez Saidmamadova, Tajikistan, 2025, 11 min. Russian with English subtitles
    
Voiceless
Saadat Sataeva, Kyrgyzstan, 2025, 15 min. Russian with English subtitles

The Moon Shows The Way
Sezimai Mairambek kyzy & Uuljan Zainidinova (Alternativa Teen Lab), Kyrgyzstan, 2023, 20 min. Kyrgyz with English subtitles

Followed by a talk with Valeriya Kim and Gulnoza Irgasheva

The programme brings together women and queer filmmakers from Central Asia, offering them a space to tell their stories in a variety of forms and shapes. Through intimate conversations they strengthen relationships with ancestors, family and partners — without being afraid to be vulnerable or to challenge notions of gender and heteronormativity. (CASFF)

Dear Hurum: An attempt to become closer to my dear great-grandmother Hurum through reimagined institutional and family archives, death, voice messages and grief.

64 пункта почему все пошло не так (64 reasons why everything went wrong): A 20-year-old girl Ainur and her mother Guldana face a secret that shattered their world. Breaking the silence to remind every family that they don’t have to bear hidden pain alone.


Alone in a Dance for Two: A former labour migrant RANO (36), turned an ambitious director of a provincial Russian drama theatre in a small Tajik town, attempting to make the theatre function, despite challenges by the management.

Voiceless follows the fragile, long-distance relationship between two anonymous young women – one in Ukraine, the other in Kyrgyzstan – who meet and fall in love online. Told through text messages and phone calls, the documentary captures their longing, tenderness, and struggle to stay connected across borders and silence.

The Moon Shows The Way: Akylai, an 18-year-old girl from Kyzyl-Korgon village (Kyrgyzstan), is fighting for her freedom against an arranged marriage her parents are pushing her into.

Valeriya Kim is Programme Director of the Cinemalove Film Festival

Gulnoza Irgasheva is a member of the Uzbek feminist collective Maqaal

 

27.09.2025
Dear Hurum
64 пункта почему все пошло не так (64 reasons why everything went wrong)
Alone in a Dance for Two
Voiceless
The Moon Shows The Way