Screen has debuted a festival trailer for the new film Mukagali, a feature about Kazakh poet Mukagali Makataev which premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia over the weekend.
The film focusses on Makataev, who since his death in 1976 has become one of the country’s most celebrated writers.
The film concentrates on three years of his life when he left university after Leonid Brezhnev’s rise to lead the Soviet Union; Makataev opposed communism and worked to preserve the independent Kazakh language.
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is now running and will conclude on Saturday. We’ll have some more coverage from Estonia coming your way over the next few days.
Here’s the trailer.
