Director: Darezhan Omirbaev
Screenplay: Darezhan Omirbaev, Limara Jeksembaeva
Cinematographer: Boris Trochev, Cloé Drieu
Editing: R. Beliakova, Catherine D'Hoir
Sound: Helena Vlazneva
Cast.: Djamshed Usmonov, Saoule Toktibaeva, A. Tourgambaeva, Magjane Omirbaev, Valéria Gouliaéva, Valéri Skoribov, M. Alpisbaev
Production: Artcam International NHK Kadam-T-Kazakhfilm Aïmanov
Distribution:
Epicentre Films
55 rue de la Mare
75020 Paris
Tel: 0033-1.43.49.03.03
Fax: 0033-1.43.49.03.23
Year: 2001
35 mm, Color, 85 min,
OV Kazakh with French subtitles
Un Certain Regard - Cannes 2001
Young director Amir Kobessov gets a telegram informing his mother is seriously ill. He leaves his wife and son to drive to his mother’s, three days away. He starts a journey outside on the roads, as well as within himself. This road movie taking us through huge landscapes of Kazakhstan, is also a pretext for dreamy sequences that overcome the sad purpose of his trip. Amir figures out a structure for his next film, fancies about an extramarital relationship and experiences an incredible and funny preview of his film in a theatre, when the audience is more keen to see the karate film the projectionist inappropriately started showing, rather than his own film they had initially come for.
