Censors objected to scenes showing “corruption and bribery” by government officials.
A film drama telling the story of a standoff between residents of a bucolic village in Kyrgyzstan and a Chinese mining company despoiling the countryside is being kept off the country’s cinema screens by the security services.
But the producers of Meken, directed by Medetbek Jalilov, have now said they will instead upload the movie to the internet and make it freely available.
As Jalilov has said in media interviews, Meken was supposed to be released in January, but a state movie commission, which he said includes representatives of the presidential administration and the State Committee for National Security, or GKNB, demanded the removal of scenes showing “corruption and bribery” by government officials.
Source: https://eurasianet.org/kyrgyzstan-drama-about-mining-protests-banned-from-cinema-screens