Assel Aushakimova’s dark comedy about journalism in Kazakhstan “Bikechess” has won the Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s Works in Progress award, which runs as part of the festiv…
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The film is produced by Antoine Simkine at Les Films d’Antoine , alongside Alma Pictures and Maipo Film . The Works in Progress Post-Production Development Award went to Czech documentary “I’m Not Everything I Want to Be,” directed by Klára Tasovská, and produced by Tasovská and Lukáš Kokeš. The Works in Development Award went to “Flight From Kabul,” directed and written by Sahraa Karimi, and produced by Slovakia’s Wanda Adamík Hrycová of Wandal Production.
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