A love of the land and its people seem to come part and parcel with the cinematic traditions of Central Asia, with Sadyk Sher-Niyaz’s ‘Queen of the Mountains’ serving as a recent example of this, fuelling a passionate fire for national pride. A public figure with a political history in his home land, Sher-Niyaz also … Continue reading Film Review: The Song of the Tree (2018) by Aibek Daiyrbekov