Les films du balibari and Mainframe production are proud to inform you of the latest successes of their multi-awarded documentary,
Village without women by Srdjan Sarenac.

One year after its international premiere at the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), and after screenings in the US (CineQuest), in Poland (Krakow International Film Festival) and in Asia’s biggest festival in Tokyo (TIFF), VILLAGE WITHOUT WOMEN continues its road trip and wins awards throughout the world.

The closing ceremony of the Fifth International Documentary Film Festival on Human Rights "Bir Duino Kyrgyzstan” has come to an end and the winners of have been announced.

1. «Shoemaker», by Nurlan Razakulov, producer – Ulan Isakbekov, Cinema Development Fund (CDF), 2011, 26 min.
Synopsis. Shoemaker Bakyt Mambetakunov shoes the inhabitants of Kurtka village and people in the neighborhood. These places are 420 kilometers far from Bishkek - in Naryn region of Kyrgyzstan. Mambetakunov is a unique man who was able to overcome personal problems and become an extremely necessary specialist for his countrymen.

1. «Perverted Dream» by Nishana Zheenalieva & Aktan Ryskeldiev, producers - Temir Birnazarov & Emil Satpashev, «Tazar», 2010, 20 minutes
2. «Youth Issues» by Almazbek Zarylbek uulu & Abdulaim Mamadaliev, producer Chinara Aitbaeva, «Nash Vek» Youth Movement, «Manas» National Youth Palace and Kyrgyz State Institute of Arts, 2011, 23 min.

Bir Duino - 2011 Festival's special program in Bishkek

Program of the Festival for Khujand (Tajikistan) October 20-22.

Program of the Festival for the regions from 4th to 18th of October

September 27, 2011 (Tuesday):

10.00 - 13.00 - Round table discussion with the filmmakers: Human Rights in documentary films: achievements and problems
13.00 - 13.30 - Briefing with journalists
13.30 - 15.00 - Lunch

On September 27, 2011 International Festival of Documentary Films on Human Rights “Bir Duino-Kyrgyzstan” will start in Kyrgyzstan (at Manas cinema hall)

This year the Festival is celebrating its fifth anniversary and unites more than 30 thousand fans of documentary films on human rights and activists from our country and other post-Soviet countries as well as friends from all over the world. There are school students, college students, teachers and university professors, intelligentsia, young film directors, established and world-renown film figures, artists, journalists, human rights activists, pensioners and migrants.