It’s one of the routine — if entirely unpredictable — pleasures of the international film-festival circuit that, every few years, an entire group of talented directors from some long-dormant corner of the moviemaking universe will stand up and demand to be counted. Such was the case with China in the 1980s, Iran in the ’90s, Argentina and Romania at the dawn of the ’00s — and now, it would appear, with Kazakhstan. In actuality, only one of the three features comprising AFI Fest’s “Showcase on Kazakhstan” —... More >>>