Director Zhanana Kurmasheva discusses her debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, along with producer Banu ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

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“We Live Here” follows three generations in the desolate Kazakh steppe, once a Soviet nuclear test site, as they confront ... This stigma follows the people of Semipalatinsk wherever they ...

The Polygon shines a light on the village of Sarzhal in East Kazakhstan, situated only 18kms from the perimeter of the former Semipalatinsk Test Site, that was home to over 600 nuclear detonations.

"We Live Here" follows three generations in the desolate Kazakh steppe, once a Soviet nuclear test site, as they confront ... This stigma follows the people of Semipalatinsk wherever they go.

“We Live Here” follows three generations in the desolate Kazakh steppe, once a Soviet nuclear test site, as they confront the place ... This stigma follows the people of Semipalatinsk wherever they go ...