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Beginning June 27th for Astana Day, Astana will be hosting an international action film festival. Timur Bekmambetov is one of the organizers and apparently Mike Tyson, Dolph Lundgren and Milla Jovovich are coming to Astana. They’re showing a lot of interesting films. In particular, I’m looking forward to seeing Shanghai, Tyson, Sukiyaki Western Django, The Good. The Bad. The Weird, The Lady and the Reaper and Kazakhstan’s own Tsugtsvang. I wish Bekmambetov had a new film to offer for the festival, but those films seem the most interesting from the descriptions. I could do without watching the new Karate Kid film but mainly because I remember the original so well. And I will avoid Twilight: Eclipse like the plague.

Unfortunately, even ten days before the festival opens, there’s still no schedule posted. It looks like movies will be shown in Keruen and Mega and Sara Araka theaters. There will also be round tables and seminars and press events, but I don’t know if those will be open to the public. If anyone has or gets any information on this, please leave a comment.