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The Adopted Son

(Beshkempir)

by Aktan Arym Kubat

Kyrgyzstan

 

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Director: Aktan Arym Kubat

Script: Aktan Arym Kubat, Avtandil Adikulov , Marat Sarulu

Cinematographer: Khasan Kydyraliyev

Editing: Tilek Mabetova

Music: Nurlan Nishanov

Cast: Mirlan Abdykalykov, Albina Imasheva, Adyr Abylkassimov, Bakyt Djylkytchiev, Mirlan Tchynkodjoïev, Taalai Mederov

Production: Noe Productions, Kyrgizfilm

Distribution:
Orange Studios
21, rue Jasmin
75016 Paris
T. + 33 (0)1 57 36 11 11
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www.orange-studio.fr

Year: 1998

Screening: 2019, 2002, 2000

35 mm, B & W, 81 min
OV Kyrgyz with French Subtitles

Silver Leopard at Locarno Festival 1998

In Kyrgyzstan, people follow an ancestral tradition allowing the happy parents of a large family to offer one of their babies, once weaned, to a childless couple. Five old women perform the ritual of receiving the baby from his mother and pray for the happiness of the child and his new parents. He is called ‘Beshkempir’ which means five old women.

In a Kyrgyz village in the mountains, Aaste lives a carefree happy childhood, playing with his faithful friends. He experiences the awakening of adolescence with Aïnoura, the neighbour’s daughter. One day, his simple joyful life suddenly turns upside down when his friend Tekine reveals he is an adopted child.

 

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