National cinematography development in Kazakhstan: historiography of the problem

One of the biggest challenges for the peoples of the post-Soviet space became the search and development of national identity. In the Soviet Union cinema has always been an important tool for socialist and communist ideology propaganda, and the government of independent Kazakhstan continued this tradition, but directed it towards new goals. The article analyses studying level of the problem of national cinema development in the Soviet, modern Kazakh and foreign sources. Based on the analysis of existing academic studies of Kazakh cinema, it is made an attempt to trace the development trends of national film art and its relationship with the state policy.