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Exclusive: UK-based sales outfit Capture has added historical action epic Tamerlane: Rise Of The Last Conqueror to its Cannes slate.

The feature, based on a true story, is directed by US filmmaker Jacob Schwarz and written by Matthew Greene.

Capture launched earlier this year as a joint venture between Capstone Global and Signature Entertainment.

The film is about a fearless warrior named Timur who rises from the harsh deserts to command an unstoppable army and change history forever. It is based on the true story of Timur, born in modern day Uzbekistan, who went on to founde the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan,...

The concept of what is reality and how cinema can present it, is one that has been “tormenting” arthouse filmmakers forever. Yalkin Tuychiev presents his take on the topic, trying to approach reality through intense beauty.

“2000 Songs for Farida” screened at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas

The story takes place in a remote location in Central Asia, during the civil war following the 1917 Russian Revolution, that ended with the Bolsheviks taking over from the khans and emirs that dominated before. In this setting, Kamil lives with his three wives, who follow an exhausting everyday routine that allows them to survive in a rather harsh setting. As Kamil has not managed to have a child with Robibar, the most beautiful among the three, he brings in yet a fourth wife, the titular Farida, and tension soon mounts.

Tuychiev creates a very intriguing setting, lingering between the dystopia and the Far West,...

It can take a moment to adjust to the quiet, grave rhythms of the impossibly gorgeous “2000 Songs of Farida,” where the imagemaking is so resplendent as to be disorienting, given how accustomed we are to a cinema in which the pictures primarily serve the storytelling. But Yalkin Tuychiev’s film, which is Uzebkistan’s entry for the international Oscar, is hardly lacking in story: This historical drama is simply told with such grace that its opening scenes feel like snatches of a melody that needs to reach its refrain before we can recognize it as a song — one that harmonizes between the caged bird longing to be free, and the freed bird longing for the comfort and safety of her cage.

The vast backdrop, flattered by the blanched grandeur of Dp Bakhodir Yuldashev’s incredible imagery, is the wilderness where scrubby steppes extend out from the foothills of arid mountains in rural Uzbekistan.