“What is a complete image of oil?”: An Interview with Sanaz Sohrabi Botagoz Koilybayeva July 2026 Interviews “What does it mean if I blow up this tiny image and make it three metres long?” says Iranian filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi, when talking about the politics of images. Who does the looking? Who is being looked at? Wha...
Sundance 2026: Watching on the go Botagoz Koilybayeva May 2026 Festival Reports After the COVID-19 pandemic led some major festivals to turn digital, Sundance has continued to unfold as a hybrid event: at once a physical festival and a virtual one for attendees tuning in from abroad. As a ...
“The repressive machine began to operate”: An Interview with Beata Bubenets Botagoz Koilybayeva July 2025 Interviews In 2019, a middle-aged man from the Republic of Sakha sets out on foot from its capital, Yakutsk, to Moscow to exorcise a demon from the Kremlin: Vladimir Putin. Pushing a makeshift cart loaded with wooden pole...
“I wanted to draw attention to Artsakh”: An Interview with Sareen Hairabedian Botagoz Koilybayeva January 2025 Interviews Armenian cinema, just like its history, is marked by the scars of displacement and war. The country’s most celebrated filmmaker, Sergei Parajanov, was persecuted and imprisoned by the Soviet regime. The Armenia...
