The Song of the Tree: Grand-Prix at the Kazan IFF of muslim cinema etc.

Dates of the festival: 26-30.04.2019

Places: Kazan, Russia

Titles of the festival: 15th Kazan International Film Festival of muslim cinema

Kyrgyz films won three awards: 'The Song of the Tree' - Grand-Prix & Prize of Russian Guild of Film-critics, 'The Teacher' - Prize for the best short-lenth documentary film

The Song of the Tree, 2018, Central Asia Film (Kyrgyzstan) & Cinetrain (Russia), director - Aybek Dairbekov, leading actors - Omurbek Izrailov & Saltanat Bakayeva 

Genre: Historical musical, drama

Synopsis: The film talks about the life and tragedy of a Kyrgyz village, focusing on a simple young guy. Being expelled from his native village, he takes the daughter of a local lors, “bai”, with him, but is overtaken and beaten almost to death. He is destined to find himself and his fate in order to reunite his people.

Participant of many film festivals: Moscow IFF, Busan IFF, Black Nights Tallinn IFF, Dhaka IFF - Grand-Prix, Palm Springs IFF etc.

'The Teacher', short documentary, director Ibadylla Ajibaev. The film tells about Toktozhuma Stakhanov, the only teacher in the village of Ken-Suu, Naryn region.

Ibadylla Ajibaev

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