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18th Busan IFF (3-12 October, 2013): Unknown new wave Central Asian Cinema
The Central Asian new wave produced far more art than is known overseas but many masterpieces have disappeared, for innumerable reasons. This year’s special program, “The Unknown New Wave of Central Asian Cinema,” was designed to position these forgotten new wave films in their rightful place within world film history. Though countless works will never be recovered and the state of other prints is poor, eight masterpieces from four countries will be screened for audiences once again.
Unknown New Wave Central Asian Cinema1) Surzhekey - The Angel of Death by Damir Manabay, 1991 It is the 1930s, and Soviet rule arrives in Kazakhstan, and with it, collectivization—the nationalization of private property. The herds slaughtered and dispatched to Moscow reducing Kazakhstan’s population by 50 percent in less than a decade. Half of the Kazakhs died from hunger, the others migrated to China. This turbulent time is portrayed through the sto...
2) Poor People by Dzhahangir Kasymov, 1990 In this comedy, Mahmud gives a ticket to a football match to his neighbor Normat. It just so happens that at the stadium that day is an organized lottery: the owner of this ticket is the winner of new automobile. Normat is absolutely thrilled, but fears his neighbor will makes claims to the car. The next day in the mahallya, the private suburb, a dispute eru...
3) Abdullajon or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg by Zulfiqor Musoquv, 1991
This comedy reflects Uzbekistan’s new geopolitical context. Abdullajon is the name a villager gave to his 10-year-old son - an alien to Earth. On one side, Abdullajon finds the warmth he did not receive on his home planet from his step-mom, step-father and countless brothers and sisters. As he strives to help his family and neighbors, he does magic: He summo...
 Uzbekistan 89min DCP Color
4) The Blessed Bukhara by Bako Sadykov, 1991 In the ancient city of Bukhara with its inhabitants, a new city is created and a model of humanity is trapped in an irreconcilable struggle between the new and the old. The new is built on the ruins of the past, without any respect and understanding of it. The new declares itself progressive, but suffers people the loss of true values and of loved ones. In t...
5) Presence by Talib Khamidov, 1995 Why the “presence?” Set during Tajikistan’s civil war from 1993 to 1997, the film features no military action, only occasional bursts of automatic rifle fire and men in uniform emerging from somewhere with guns, to remind us that “the spirit of war” lingers over the country. Three friends debate the reasons for the tragedy among themselves and with the peopl...
6) The Wild East by Rashid Nugmanov, 1993 This postmodern drama’s main thrust is a game of and with cinematic and cultural symbols. The collapse of the Soviet Union is rendered as an apocalypse of sorts - the action takes place in a post-apocalypse, otherwise known as the beginning of 1990s. The place for the action: The Wild East, or Kazakhstan. The plot of film is borrowed from Akira Kurosawa’s Se...
7) Balkon by Kalykbek Salykov, 1988 During an operation, a surgeon, Aydar, recognizes his patient as a childhood friend by a tattoo on the man’s hand. It inspires memories of Alma-Aty of 1960s - a time of how he survived with his sister after Stalin’s regime, when his father was arrested and mother died, of how he protected himself from criminals and junkies. But it was also a time of happines..
8) Slow Sea, Fast River by Marat Sarulu, 2004 A modern parable about three brothers whose life separated. Of their happy childhood and adolescence together, only a black-and-white photograph remains. The rebellious youngest brother is now seeking the meaning of a dream wherein he reunites with his siblings after years apart. The oldest is married, longing vainly for a child. The middle son is dedicated ...
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