The Move - new film by Marat Sarulu is officially invited to the Busan IFF, October, 2014 

New film made by Marat Sarulu is officially invited for the screening in the A Window on Asian Cinema section at the 19^th BUSAN International Film Festival (BIFF), which will take place on October 2^nd through 11^th, 2014. A Window on Asian Cinema is a section for selected works by talented film-makers, along with the year’s best films that showcase the recent trend in Asia.

Festival Director LEE Yong-kwan have informed about this.

In his official invitation to Mr. Marat Sarulu he wrote: “Since the festival’s inception in 1996 as the first film festival in Korea, BIFF has actively endeavored to promote Asian cinema and to discover the future leading film-makers and festivals from various regions visit the port city of Busan every year, to celebrate one of the world’s most energetic films festivals. Last year over 217 thousand people attended BIFF to screen 299 titles from 70 countries. We take great pride in this successful festival with numerous audience visiting Busan Cinema Centre, the site for the promotion and appreciation the art of cinema.”      

The Move (Koch/Pereezd), synopsis:

In the village, in a small house by the river, old man lived with his granddaughter. They live a simple life, in mutual consent and harmony with the surrounding world. A daughter of an old man living in the city and doing everything in order to survive in a hostile social environment. She asks her father to sell a house in the village and move to live with her in the city. The old man hardly agrees persuaded by his daughter, and moved to live with him granddaughter in the city. However, it soon discovered that the old man's daughter took a bank loan and mortgaged his home. She just does not have time to repay the loan to the bank and her family lost their home. Old man’s daughter, trying to get out of this situation leads her daughter to her ex-husband, but he refuses to take her to his house, even temporarily.

Then she makes a desperate attempt to attach to his daughter first one relative and then to another, but to no avail. In horror and despair she attaches his father in a nursing home, and the daughter in an orphanage, and she went to Russia to work. Unable to bear the separation from her granddaughter, the old man comes out of the nursing home and goes to the orphanage to see his granddaughter. Covered by the memories of his lost home, they are sadly huddled together. One evening the girl runs away from an orphanage and comes to urban wasteland. Shepherd chases past her sheep and girl for a long time looking after him, until the night comes, in which the girl disappears. 

The Move (Koch / Pereezd)

Kyrgyzstan, 2014, 155 min., Full HD, Colour, National studio "Kyrgyzfilm" & "Mandala" Film Company

Script-writer & film-director: Marat Sarulu

Director of photography: Boris Troshev

Production-designer: Shailoobek Jekshenbaev

Soundman: Murat Ajiev

Music by Alexander Yurtaev

Starring: Sagyndyk Makekadyrov (Old Man), Perizat Ermanbaeva (his daughter), Ainazik Damirbekova (his granddaughter)

Cinema Department