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NAGIMA
by Zhanna Issabayeva
Kasachstan 2013 80 min. Russian original version with English subtitles
wed 19 nov 8:00 pm Kulturpalast
Script: Zhanna Issabayeva, DoP: Sayat Zhangazinov, Editor: Azamat Altubasov, Production: Sun Production, Producer: Zhanna Issabayeva, Cast: Dina Tukubayeva, Galina Pyanova, Mariya Nezhentseva
The visually striking film tells the story of a young woman in post-socialist Kazakhstan: Nagima lives with her friend Anya, who is pregnant, in a rundown shack on the outskirts of Almaty. They pretend to be sisters; back in the orphanage, neither of them had anyone else anyway. When Anya dies in childbirth and her baby is placed in an orphanage, Nagima desperately tries to spare Anya’s baby the same fate.
"(…) an unblinking look at the vulnerable social position of single women in Kazakhstan. Working in a style that recalls the lucid observation and technical precision of Romanian cinema, but adding a strain of Central Asian lyricism, maverick helmer Zhanna Issabayeva depicts her protags’ economic and emotional deprivations with a somberness that builds to a shocking, stupendous finale." (Variety)
Biography: Zhanna Issabayeva was born in 1968 in Almaty/Kazakhstan. She graduated with a degree in journalism from the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in 1991 and has worked as a producer since 1993. In 2007, she made her debut as screenwriter and director with the fiction film KAROY.
Filmography: 2007 KAROY, 2009 MY DEAR CHILDREN, 2011 LOSING INNOCENCE IN ALMA-ATA, 2012 TALGAT, 2013 NAGIMA
Awards: Lotus Award for best film (Deauville Asian Film Festival, France 2014)
Contact:
Sun Production
Almaty
Kasachstan
issabayeva@mail.ru
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