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Letters from the Pamirs

Letters from the Pamirs

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Director:Janyl Jusupjan
Length:103 minutes
Genre:Document

Journeys to Freedom

Director: Janyl Jusupjan

Beneath the luminous and liminal Pamir Mountains, changes in family and culture are contemplated. Ethnic Kyrgyz villagers living remotely in Tajikistan are at the margins of Russian, Chinese and American expansionism. Their dreams and grief are voiced amidst idylls and recollections of civil war. The Kyrgyzstani director Janyl Jusupjan lives between Europe and Asia, but returns every year to her native village. Now, through her own memories and the memories of local people she paints a picture of the culture of the ethnic Kyrgyz. In this intimate documentary, the filmmaker contemplates the outlying regions, the trauma of war and ethnic frictions.

Length: 103 min

Year: 2016

Country of origin:

  • Kirghizia
  • France

Journeys to Freedom

Director: Janyl Jusupjan

Beneath the luminous and liminal Pamir Mountains, changes in family and culture are contemplated. Ethnic Kyrgyz villagers living remotely in Tajikistan are at the margins of Russian, Chinese and American expansionism. Their dreams and grief are voiced amidst idylls and recollections of civil war. The Kyrgyzstani director Janyl Jusupjan lives between Europe and Asia, but returns every year to her native village. Now, through her own memories and the memories of local people she paints a picture of the culture of the ethnic Kyrgyz. In this intimate documentary, the filmmaker contemplates the outlying regions, the trauma of war and ethnic frictions.

Year: 2016

Country of origin:

  • Kirghizia
  • France