Add to ORKGThis paper describes the situation of movie industry and the exploration of new national identity through films in Kazakhstan, which supports film production most actively among the post-Soviet Central Asian countries. The Kazakhstan authorities take full advantage of history film-making and its repercussions in the administrative enforcement of nation’s political and cultural policy. Since Kazakhstan could easily get out of the financial difficulty after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the government tried to establish new historical perspectives of the Kazakh nation through the film-making of emphasizing national identity. Furthermore, Kazakhstan tried to escape from the influence of the Soviet Socialist Realism and excavate film ...