"The Butterfly of the Urals" is a handmade puppet animation by Finnish artist Katariina Lillqvist. It is based on folk tales abou...

The only film of the Berlinale that I actually saw was "Chiko" , written and directed by Özgür Yildirim. It's a dark story abo...

From Son of a Lion by Benjamin Gilmour, interviewed at Spiegel.de . The movie tells a story about the life of Pashtun people in northern Pa...

This is a Russian 5TV program about the Tatar "R&B phenomenon", mainly focusing on the hip-hop group IttifaQ . Reporter Kirill...

Totally AMAZING fantasy music video with unidentified dombra hero! No wonder the ice queen melts! This is a propaganda video for the Kazakhs...

Javhlan & Haidav - Ahand Dvvsin Duu Tinet commented on the previous Genghis Khan post that Mongols are generally not very enthusiastic a...

This 2007 movie, about the early years of Genghis Khan, deserves a much longer post. The director, Sergei Bodrov sr., is Russian. The film i...