Uzbekistan at the World Cup: The White Wolves Enter the Global Stage

For its first-ever appearance at the FIFA World Cup, Uzbekistan arrives in North America with more than a football story. Around Eldor Shomurodov, Abdukodir Khusanov, Fabio Cannavaro and a generation shaped by both domestic clubs and foreign leagues, the White… Read More

Through roads, markets and silence: Tolomush Zhanybekov films Kyrgyzstan’s unseen lives

Kyrgyz director Tolomush Zhanybekov turns his camera toward the people and places often left outside the frame: cemetery guards, pensioners selling their belongings, children facing humiliation, brothers bound by care and solitude. Born in Balykchy and based in Kyrgyzstan’s contemporary film scene, he builds a cinema rooted in roads,… Read More

Between Extended Family and Personal Boundaries: How Parenting is Changing in Kazakhstan

Manas and the Making of Kyrgyzstan