‘Bikechess’ Review: A Withheld Kazakh Comedy-Drama About State Propaganda

While the film’s title is only strictly relevant to its opening scene — in which a TV news station films a made-up hybrid sport — the understated Russian-language drama “Bikechess” captures the absurdities of working within propagandist frameworks. It builds on several of filmmaker Assel Aushakimova’s previous works, as a chronicler of Kazakhstan’s journalism, as […]