Tomiris [ENG subs] Historical Drama | Qazaqfilm
Tomiris is a 2019 Kazakhstani feature film directed by Akan Satayev, which tells the story of the queen of the Massagetae, Tomiris, and the Persian king, Cyrus the Great. Tomiris was the queen of the Massagetae, people from a Scythian pastoral-nomadic confederation of Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea, in parts of modern-day Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, western Uzbekistan, and southern Kazakhstan.
Myn Bala [ENG. subs] | Türk Bitig
Myn Bala (Kazakh: Жаужүрек мың бала, Jaujürek myñ bala) is a 2011 Kazakh historical dramatic film depicting the eighteenth century war between the Kazakhs and the Dzungar Khanate. The film was made to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan's independence from the Soviet Union.
"Film and identity in Kazakhstan : Soviet and post-Soviet culture in Central Asia" by Rico Isaacs
Film and identity in Kazakhstan : Soviet and post-Soviet culture in Central Asia by Publication Date: 2018Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Central-Asian nations? Here, Rico Isaacs uses cinema as an analytical lens to explore how the Kazakh national identity has been constructed and contested.