Botagoz Koilybayeva is a Kazakh-born, Prague-based PhD student, researcher and film writer. She is an alumna of the Berlinale Talent Press 2025. She writes about cinema in academic and cultural, as well as English-language and Central Asian contexts. Her writing in English can be found on Little White Lies, Klassiki and Cineropa. Her bylines in Russian include the art journal Art of Her, ’98mag and Qyzqaras. Her current PhD research centres on the intersection of film, ecology and the more-than-human. She has presented her research at conferences in Dresden and Utrecht.
Kazakhstan