"Dust of the Earth": festivals, awards, special screenings

"I have seen Dust of the Earth and I think it is a great piece of art. I shall be showing it to my students shortly and we will discuss it as well." - Jamal Sohail, film-critic, Pakistan, member of the NETPAC jury at the XI Eurasia IFF, Almaty.

Info about film "TOPURAK" ("Dust of the Earth")::

Script by Cholponay Borubaeva & Marat Alykulov

Direction by Cholponay Borybaeva

Director of photography - Joldosh Akmataliev

Productin designer - Talgat Asyrankulov

Sound director - Murat Ajiev

Cast: Asan Amanov, Ulan Jukenov, Jandat Jamanbaeva

Kyrgyzfilm, 2014, 20 min.

Synopsis. Topurak is a clay, ground and ashes from which God created man, and where human lives and where he will be gone.

An unexpected visitor from the past suddenly bursts into a calm, measured way of life of older spouses - old woman Bermet and old man Kanybek and literally reveals barely healed wounds of all three. In two days we’ll see how a dramatic fate of the characters will be revealed: their hopes, never realized dreams, humility and fear, joy and despair. We’ll see the whole palette of complex human relationships in a tiny space of a private courtyard in the local story of the classic triangle.

Festivals, awards and special screenings:

1) Grand-Prix at the Forth IFF "Kyrgyzstan is the land of the short movies", 12-15.12.2014, Bishkek

2) Grand-Prix at the Forum for Young cinema "Hope", also award of the Youth jury, 18-20.03, 2015, Bishkek

3) Best short fiction at the National Cinema Award "Ak Ilbirs", 16.05.2015

4) Fifth Art-house Film Festival, 23-28.08.2015, Kyrgyzstan ((Out of the competition)

5) Third Yakutsk IFF, 01-05.09.2015, Yakutiya, Russia Federation (Out of the competition)

6) XI Eurasia IFF, 19-25.09.2015, Almaty, Kazakhstan (Out of the competition)

7) The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Limassol, 17-23.10.2015 (International competition)

8) Dhaka IFF, Bangladesh, 14-22.01.2016 (in the Women Filmmakers Section)