Hanoi, in the Japan­ese indus­tri­al zone: two young women who have left their vil­lage strug­gle to escape tem­po­rary work and short-term con­tracts. Becom­ing a real worker is a dream, which … read more

A broth­er and sister, aged eleven and eight respec­tive­ly, are sur­vivors of a deadly cyclone on the island of Min­danao in Decem­ber 2011. With extreme mod­esty, Kiri films their child­hood … read more

At a bend in the Rue de Charonne, I come across the letter car­ri­er start­ing his second daily round on foot. He wants me to accom­pa­ny him. It’s very, very … read more

In 2022, a col­lec­tive from the Sudan Film Fac­to­ry began a project to por­tray some people in Sudan’s cap­i­tal, ini­ti­at­ed by British film­mak­er Phil Cox (Native Voice Films). In the … read more

Ini­tial­ly, Gul­noza thought she knew her­self well enough and was open enough to start a film project about the rela­tion­ship between her and Denis, her boyfriend. She didn’t want to be afraid of talk­ing about the future, about reli­gion and faith, wanted to be honest and straight­for­ward, show­ing vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty. The film­ing was sup­posed to take over ten days but took a dif­fer­ent direction.

Gul­noza Irga­she­va is a film­mak­er and activist based in Naman­gan, Uzbek­istan. Gul­noza­’s artis­tic and activist prac­tices focus on decolo­nial­i­ty, Muslim wom­en’s agency, and resis­tance strat­e­gy to oppres­sion dynam­ics and colo­nial con­structs based on gender, eth­nic­i­ty, reli­gion, race, and sexual ori­en­ta­tion. Uti­liz­ing a par­tic­i­pa­to­ry approach, their artistry involves decen­tral­ized deci­sion-making, engag­ing the entire cast in every stage of filmmaking.

They com­menced their film­mak­ing jour­ney with the short film GURUNG during an archival footage film­mak­ing pro­gramme. Engag­ing in Ate­liers Varan’s doc­u­men­tary pro­gramme, Gul­noza craft­ed the exper­i­men­tal doc­u­men­tary DEVORDAGI BOLALIK SURATIM that is set for fes­ti­val dis­tri­b­u­tion soon.

Gul­noza Irga­she­va con­cep­tu­al­ized and guided a series of site-spe­cif­ic per­for­mances, bring­ing togeth­er thir­teen young women from Uzbek­istan to explore themes of domes­tic­i­ty and every­day rit­u­als at Venice Bien­nale 2024

Zamira is fes­tive­ly attired, singing in a choir. A line from a love song poses the ques­tion “What is my pur­pose in life here on earth?”, becom­ing the guid­ing theme … read more

The night is still black. In the narrow beam of her torch, Quralai counts the money for the sweet corn she is about to buy from the pick­ers. At home, … read more

Can pass­ing through a forest change the fate of a 16-year-old girl overnight? The lives of Runa and her family are now divid­ed into before and after cross­ing this forest. … read more

Koka is a pretty grown-up kid who lives with his father and two dogs in a coastal vil­lage on the Bering Sea. Under his father’s edgy instruc­tions, he helps with … read more

The film unfolds as a poignant explo­ration of the film­mak­er’s jour­ney toward under­stand­ing and accept­ing the pro­found sense of belong­ing tied to space and time. It chron­i­cles the moth­er’s expe­ri­ence … read more