Bauryna salu
Askhat Kuchinchirekov | Kazakhstan | 2023 | 113'
Screenings
Sun 5 May H 21:15
Section
Original title
Bauryna salu
Synopsis
According to the nomad tradition of bauryna salu, as soon as he was born, Yersultan was entrusted to his grandmother. The child’s infancy is very harsh, spent between the salt mine and the humble home of his grandmother with the constant dream of being reunited with his father and mother. When his grandmother dies, Yersultan, now an adolescent, will have to face another trauma: fitting into a family nucleus of parents he hardly knows. An intense psychological and coming of age portrait of a young Kazakh inspired by the director’s own life.
Cast
Yersultan Yermanov, Bigaisha Salkynova, Aidos Auesbayev , Dinara Shymyrbaeva
Films Distribution
Wide Management
Production
Tandem Production
Editing
Askhat Kuchinchirekov
Cinematography
Zhanarbek Eleubek
Editing
Begaly Shibikeyev
Language
Kazakh
Subtitles
English, Italian
Premiere
Italian premiere
Main awards
Hellenic Parliament "Human Values" Award and Greek Approaches Award (Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, 2023), Best Youth Feature Film (Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2023), Special Award (Fajr Film Festival, 2024)
Biography
Askhat Kuchinchirekov (Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1982) graduated from the Kazakh National Academy of Cinema as a film director. From 2004 until 2019 he worked as an assistant director to Sergey Dvortsevoy, with whom he also collaborated as an actor in titles such as Tulpan (Best Film at Un Certain Regard- Cannes 2008) and Ayka (2019). In 2013 he directed and produced the short film Gas Is Over . Bauryna salu, his feature film debut, was premiered at San Sebastian IFF 2023.
Filmography
2023 - Bauryna salu, ff
2013 - Gas is Over, sf