Botagoz Koilybayeva

Botagoz Koilybayeva is a Kazakh film critic and PhD student based in Prague. Her bylines include Klassiki, Little White Lies, Senses of Cinema, amongst others.

Articles

At a stage, two men sit in chairs as a rapt theater audience looks on

Ji.hlava 2025: Top Prize-Winner ‘Silver,’ ‘Virtual Girlfriends,’ ‘Resilience,’ and ‘The Beauty of the Donkey’

Mon, 01/12/2026

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Six brown-skinned individuals (three men, three women) sit on a grassy knoll in a forest, smiling at the camera

“In the Post-Colonial Building of Power Structures, Collaboration Is Everything”: Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh Discuss the Himalayan Story Lab

Mon, 11/10/2025

Online Feature

Photographs are scattered throughout the grass. There is a building with a cross in the background.

“Literally and Knowingly Poisoned”: Zhanana Kurmasheva Discusses ‘We Live Here’

Mon, 04/28/2025

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