Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Iran -- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad -- The Hidden Half -- Bahram Beyza'i -- The Other Side of the Story -- Abolfazl Jalili -- Treading the Thin Line: Fiction as Documentary -- Mahmud Kalari -- Valuable Lessons of Camera -- Abbas Kiarostami -- Life and Nothing But… -- Reality Without Interruption -- Majid Majidi -- Refugees in Love and Life -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf -- Portrait of the Revolutionary as an Artist: Take One/ Take Two -- Dariush Mehrjui -- From Social Realism to Dramas of the Interior -- Tahmineh Milani -- The Real Identity of Women -- Jafar Panahi -- A Place of their Own -- Turkey -- Erden Kıral -- Exile's Return -- Ali Özgentürk -- Filmmaker in Times of Strife: A Journey into Self -- Tayfun Pirselimoglu -- New Voices Raising Old Concerns -- Yes,im Ustaoglu -- Taboos Can Also Be Broken -- Atıf Yılmaz -- Whose is the Gaze? -- Kazakhstan -- Ardak Amirkulov and Ermek Shinarbaev -- Being Young in Almaty -- Serik Aprimov -- The Last Stop is Aksuat -- Rachid Nugmanov -- The Wild East, Rockers, Bikers and a New Life -- Kyrgyzstan -- Chingiz Aitmatov -- The Equivocal Marriage of Literature and Cinema -- Aktan Abdikalikov -- The Most Successful Kyrgyz Filmmaker -- Ernest Abdizhaparov -- Minimalist World -- Gennady Bazarov -- A Culture to Share with the Young -- Tolomush Okeev -- Searching for Lost Identity -- Tajikistan -- Tachir Mukharovich Sabirov -- More than a Generation Gap -- Turkmenistan -- Halmammet Kakabaev -- Human Values in a World in Transition -- Uzbekistan -- Zulfikar Mussakov -- Comedy in the Absence of Hope and Laughter -- Yusuf Razikov -- Unfair Battle of the Sexes -- Filmography.