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It will be two programmes. We are publishing the list of the films, which will be shown there: I Want To Live, Asyl, Shore, The Border, Neighbours, Duty Of The Son, Everything Is OK, The Devil's Bridge, Nomad Encampent, The Dog Was Running. Two programmes of independent documentaries and short films from Kyrgyzstan - curated by Paul Lee
Programme 1: Spotlight on Kyrgyzstan 1 I WANT TO LIVE (Я xoчy жить)
Nargiza Mamatkulova, Kyrgyzstan, 2006, 8 minutes, b/w
and colour, documentary, no dialogue.
Issyk-Kul
International Film Festival
Manas Kyrgyz-Turkish
University. I WANT TO
LIVE
was her first film.
Selected
Filmography:
2007: Toptash
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SHORE (Бeрег)
Aibek Dairbekov , Kyrgyzstan, 2006, 10 minutes,
colour, drama, Kyrgyz and English dialogue, Russian subtitles.
Yerevan
“It’s Me” International Youth Film Festival
Manas
Kyrgyz-Turkish University.
Selected
Filmography:
Kyrgyzstan,
2006, 19 minutes, colour, drama, Kyrgyz and Kazakh dialogue, English subtitles.
Four Kyrgyz
migrant workers are transporting their recently deceased comrade from Kazakhstan back
to their homeland in Kyrgyzstan
for burial. As they are passing through passport
control at the border, it appears that the deceased doesn’t have a migration
card. A conflict between the Kyrgyz
migrant workers and Kazakh border guards dashes any hope of crossing to the
other side.
Tashkent
Ijodiy Parvoz Festival of Young Cinematographer of Central
Asia
worked as a camera assistant at Kyrgyzfilm
Studio in the early 1990s. He then
attended film classes at the Kyrgyz Art Institute, where he was trained in the
field of directing as an assistant director. Since 2000 he works as a screenwriter and
director for the production company Djebe.
Selected
Filmography:
Aleksandr
is a harmonica player, and Zinaida is a singer. Since 1994 they have been making a living by playing music and singing
in the open markets.
He is
also director of the Kinostan International Film Festival that is held
biennially by the scenic shores of Lake
Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan.
Selected
Filmography:
2007: The
Bridge
1998:
Nomad Encampment
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DUTY OF THE SON (Парз)
Temir Birnazarov , Kyrgyzstan, 2006, 23 minutes,
colour, drama, Kyrgyz dialogue, English subtitles.
Eurasia
International Film Festival
Selected
Filmography:
Everything is ok (У нас все xopoшo)
Kyrgyzstan
Together, the two
homeless boys struggle to survive on the tough streets of the Kyrgyz capital
Bishkek.
Manas Kyrgyz-Turkish
University, as part of
their annual master-class film directing course for young Kyrgyz filmmakers.
Dubai International Film Festival
Manas Kyrgyz-Turkish
University. He was the lead actor in DUTY OF THE SON (also screening in this programme). EVERYTHING
IS OK
is his first film.
Total
running time: 88 minutes
Programme 2: Spotlight on Kyrgyzstan 2
THE DEVIL’S BRIDGE (Чертов мост)
Day and night, whether the sun is shining, or
the fog is coming down from the mountains, the bridge is the villagers’
lifeline, that both separates and connects them from the outside world.
Clermont-Ferrand
International Short Film Festival
Kazakhstan.
Selected
Filmography:
1993: Don’t
Cry, Rhinoceros!
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NOMAD ENCAMPMENT (Koчмон)
Kyrgyzstan
Selected
Filmography:
2007: The
Bridge
2007:
Neighbours
The Dog Was Running (Бежала собака)
Kyrgyzstan
Baku
International Film Festival
studied at the Kyrgyz Art Institute,
and went on to work as a set designer. His
first feature film, The Adopted Son, won the Silver Leopard direction
award at the 1998 Locarno Film Festival, and also won four awards at the Angers
Film Festival 1999. His second feature
film, The Chimp, won the FIPRESCI award at the Bratislava International Film
Festival, and the Special Jury Prize at the 2002 Festroia-Troia International Film
Festival.
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Working by
day, and attending classes in the evening, a thirteen year old boy earns a living
in one of Bishkek’s markets, by wheeling a primitive cart that is overflowing
with meat, from the local abattoir and back. Whatever he earns he brings home to help feed his
mother and siblings.
**Special
Jury Prize (Broadcast Category), 2005 “Protection of Children’s Rights”
Competition. ASYL was
her first film.
In addition
to her first film ASYL (co-directed
with made BİZİM
İLBİRS (co-directed with Emir Özdeğer), which was awarded Honorable Mention
in the National Environmental Film Competition at the 3rd Mountain Film
Festival in 2007.
Total
running time: 60 minutes
Budapest
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Best Kyrgyz short films will be shown at the frame of the 2nd Korea-Central Asia Film Show