Directed by Aktan Arym Kubat • 2025 • Kyrgyzstan
One of Central Asia’s most revered directors returns with a meditation on tradition and transformation set against the rolling hills of Kyrgyzstan. Aktan Arym Kubat brings his customary empathy to bear on this story of three people whose fates are intertwined by the ancient craft of carpet weaving: fractious couple Shirin (Aigul Busurmankulova) and Kadyr (Mirlan Abdykalykov) and Turudgul (Nargiza Mamatkulova), the itinerant weaver whose arrival into their home provokes a marital and artistic crisis. Arranged in three chapters that represent both the colours of the threads and the temperaments of the central trio, Black Red Yellow moves with the languid pace of pastoral life, building to a quietly devastating conclusion.
BLACK RED YELLOW • КАРА КЫЗЫЛ САРЫ
Directed by Aktan Arym Kubat
Written by Aktan Arym Kubat and Topchugul Shaidullayeva
From the short stories of Topchugul Shaidullayeva
Cinematography by Talant Akynbekov
Music by Balasagyn Musaev
Starring: Nargiza Mamatkulova, Aigul Busurmankulova, Mirlan Abdykalykov
In Kyrgyz with English subtitles
Winner of the Shanghai International Film Festival 2025
Up Next in goEast Film Festival 2026: 23 April – 21 May
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