Kazakhstan Enters TIFF-bound STRANGER In Oscar Race

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New York – Kazakhstan’s Official Submission for the Academy Awards, STRANGER (ZHAT) by Yermek Tursunov, will premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. This is not Tursunov’s first brush with Oscar, he was short-listed for Best Foreign Film with his nomadic-time drama KELIN in 2010 – making it the furthest a Kazakh film has ever made […]