His movie Before Dawn (1933) was ostensibly a criticism of Tsarist Russia, but depicting it as a colonial power, and the Uzbeks who opposed it as anti-colonial freedom fighters, made the authorities suspicious that Khodjaev was alluding to the Soviet Union.
[4] Since 1966, Uzbekfilm has been releasing the republican satirical newsreel "Nashtar" ("Scalpel"), created by Samig Abdukakhkhar and Anatoly Kobulov (six issues per year).
[11] With the appointment of Firdavs Abdukhalikov as general director of Uzbekkino in 2019,[12] radical reforms in the cinematography of Uzbekistan were launched.
In 2020, about 200 well-known filmmakers of the republic, including Ali Khamraev and Kamara Kamalova, published an open appeal in which they called on all representatives of the industry to unite in solving the problems of national cinema and support the ongoing reforms.
According to the decree, the National Agency "Uzbekkino" was renamed the Cinematography Agency of Uzbekistan, the House of Cinema was reconstructed, and the annual Tashkent International Film Festival was established, which became the successor to the International Film Festival of Asia, Africa and Latin America and was held in Tashkent in the fall of 2021 year for the first time after a 24-year break.