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Kyrgyzstan put forward the film Centaur for the Oscar award in the category "Best film in a foreign language"
There’s a horse thief at large on the outskirts of Bishkek high up in the mountainous region of Kyrgyzstan’s capital. Otherwise not a lot happens in this small community that does at least boast a cinema. This is where stories of the war in Afghanistan, Bollywood fairy-tales from India or films by ex-Soviet director Tolomush Okeyev open up a window on the world. This is also where projectionist and horse thief Centaur lives with his deaf wife and young son. Theirs is a simple life and yet one that increasingly seems to fall foul of the jealously and intrigues of others. Centaur believes that the people of Kyrgyzstan themselves descend from centaurs, mythological half-human half-horse creatures, and that horses are, as he says, ‘the wings of humankind’. Unfolding in contemplative images, Kyrgyz director Aktan Arym Kubat’s film is an allegorical tale of humans, animals and nature trying to live together whilst caught between faith and superstition, modernity and tradition. As in his award-winning film The Light Thief Aktan Arym Kubat himself once again plays the leading role.
World premiere: Berlinale 2017, award CICAE
WITH
Aktan Arym Kubat (Centaur)
CREW
Director Aktan Arym Kubat Screenplay Aktan Arym Kubat, Ernest Abdyjaparov Director of Photography Khassan Kydyraliev Editor Petar Markovic Music Andre Matthias Sound Design Manuel Laval Sound Gerben Kokmeijer Production Design Adis Seitaliev Costumes Inara Abdieva Producers Altynai Koichumanova, Cedomir Kolar, Thanassis Karathanos, Marc Baschet, Denis Vaslin Co-producers Martin Hampel, Danis Tanovic, Yûji Sadai, Fleur Knopperts, Gulmira Kerimova Co-production
Kyrgyzfilm Studio, Bishkek
PRODUCED BY
Oy Art
Pallas Film
ASAP Films
Volya Films
WORLD SALES
The Match Factory
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