With a short introduction.

Asian Movie Night is happy to return to FOCUS with a dark comedy, Bikechess, by Assel Aushakimova (2024)!

Feature Film: Bikechess
Disenchanted Kazakh journalist Dina balances supporting her activist lesbian sister while navigating a relationship with her married cameraman.

This film screening is a part of AMN Autumn edition Tremors Beneath the Surface: Women’s Voices from Central Asia, curated by Malika Mukhamejan, a filmmaker and co-founder of the Qyzqaras Film Festival.

This program brings together features, shorts, and experimental works from Central Asia and its diasporas, assembling a layered portrait of women’s lives. The films are bound not by a single storyline but by the tremors that run beneath them: silence carried across generations, memory interrupting the present, endurance woven into the textures of the everyday.