MÄMBET: Suinbike Suleimenova launched crowdfunding for a new project

Director Suinbike Suleimenova has launched a crowdfunding campaign for her new project "MÄMBET".

The upcoming documentary "MÄMBET" is a study of language segregation in Kazakhstan's cities and spheres of life, politics and art. This full-length documentary mockumentary will be full of provoking comic moments on the one hand, but representing one of the most painful problems of Kazakh society on the other. This film opens the way to the actualization of the Kazakh language for Kazakhs through linguistic activity, showing the main character Suinbike as a "shala-Kazakh" (Ed. not speaking Kazakh), aware of the need to learn their native language, forgotten and overlooked.

"The language has a huge potential in uniting people, and my goal is to actualize the modern use of the Kazakh language. We all feel the approach of a wave of actualization, whether in contemporary art, activist movements, fashion or music," Suleimenova told Suinbike about her upcoming project.

The task of the film project "MÄMBET" is to popularize the Kazakh language, to build bridges between Russian-speaking and Kazakh-speaking people in Kazakhstan, sometimes existing separately from each other in misunderstanding and disunity, deprived of a common language in the same country.

"My personal goal is to return to the lost language and connect with my subjectivity through independent work on learning the Kazakh language. To do this, I superexpose my experience of balancing between different worlds of understanding languages in the first person to achieve reciprocity and empathy," notes Suinbike Suleimenova.

The project requires 15,000 euros. At the moment, thanks to crowdfunding, we have managed to raise a little more than 300 euros.

Suinbike Suleimenova is a creative producer, curator, director specializing in activism. She has curated and organized solo exhibitions for several Kazakhstani artists, the Femagora Gender Equality Festival (art, cinema sections), TEDxAbay St. Women (art section), in addition to being an artist herself and annually participates in numerous exhibitions and projects. Swinbike has also made three documentaries and a lot of different video art, acted as an independent video production. Suinbike's latest project is the public program MÄTIL, dedicated to linguistic justice and the Kazakh language, the main component of which was an exhibition in virtual reality, curated by her in partnership with architect Aida Issakhankyzy, JAMAN ÖNER. The exhibition, which is still in operation, has become a platform for 50 Kazakhstani and international artists. Suinbike graduated from the Kazakh National University of Arts in Astana with a degree in cinematography.