VELOŠACH (BIKECHESS)

As a TV journalist, Dina is obliged to report favourably on carefully staged events every day: on the press conference of a highly decorated professor studying the origin of humanity in Kazakhstan, just as much as on the presentation of a new sport, bike chess. Dina’s queer sister, on the other hand, rallies against the very system that Dina’s work helps to stabilise. With dry humour and keen perception, Assel Aushakimova describes the absurd ramifications of doing public relations work in a propaganda regime – as she already did in her short TOVARIŠČ POLICEJSKIJ (COMRADE POLICEMAN, IFFI #33).