The History of Kazakh Cinema with Gulnara Abikeeva
About the lecturer:
Gulnara Abikeeva — film scholar, Doctor of Arts, and author of twelve books on film. She has served as a jury member at international film festivals in Berlin, Karlovy Vary, Oberhausen, Busan, and others. She is a member of the film critics’ organizations FIPRESCI and NETPAC, as well as the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (APSA). In 2016, she was awarded the French Order of Arts and Letters, and in 2021, the Kazakh Order of “Kurmet.”
She has delivered guest lectures at the Universities of Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hokkaido during her fellowship in Japan (2018–2019), as well as at the University of Pittsburgh, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford during her Fulbright fellowship in the United States (2001–2002).
In recent years, her books have been published internationally — in the United Kingdom (Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories, co-authored with Birgit Beumers and Michael Rouland), in South Korea (The Unknown New Wave of Central Asian Cinema, co-authored with Kim Ji-seok), and in Russia (The Makhmalbaf Film House). Two new books, Profession: Producer (with Aliya Uvalzhanova) and The Kazakh New Wave, Tselinny publishing, were published in 2021 and 2022.