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The Gentle Indifference of the World

Laskovoe bezrazlichie mira

Kazakhstan / France | 2018, 100 min.

Polish premiere

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Festival edition: 2018

Section: Discoveries

Dialogue language: Kazakh / Russian

Gatunek: drama

Description:

After her father’s untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic countryside life for the cruel and cynical city. She has to find money to pay off the large family debt that her father left behind, in order to save her mother from jail. But life in the city proves to be quite different from what she’d been promised. Saltanat is only able to cope because she has her loyal childhood friend and admirer Kuandyk by her side. Although life keeps dealing them bad hands, Saltanat and Kuandyk never give up. A moving story about pure love as the only true value in a world obsessed with power and money. A film by the Kazakh director who won the Free Spirit Award at the WFF in 2014 for his film “The Owners”.

Reżyser: Adilkhan Yerzhanov

Director and screenwriter from Kazakhstan. Born in 1982 in Jezkazgan. He studied film directing at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts and continued his education in New York. His third film, "The Owners" (2014), premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and later won the Free Spirit Competition Award at the 30th Warsaw International Film Festival. His next project, "The Plague at the Karatas Village" (2016), won the NETPAC Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and was presented in the Free Spirit Competition at the 32nd Warsaw International Film Festival. His latest film, "The Gentle Indifference of the World" (2018), premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.

Director's filmography

2018 Laskovoe bezrazlichie mira / The Gentle Indifference of the World
2018 Nochnoy Bog / Night God
2016 Chuma v aule Karatas / The Plague at the Karatas Village
2015 Istoria kazakhskogo kino / The Story of Kazakh Cinema (dok./doc)
2014 Ukkylikamshat / The Owners
2013 Stroiteli / Constructors
2011 Rieltori / Realtors
2007 Bakhytzhamal (kr.m./short)

Cast & Crew

Screenwriter: Roelof Minneboo, Adilkhan Yerzhanov

Producer: Olga Khlasheva

Editor: Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Yedige Nessipbekov

DOP: Aidar Sharip

Music: Nurassyl Nuridin

Cast: Dinara Baktybayeva, Kuandyk Dyussembaev

Sound: Ilya Gariyev

Contact:

Kinostudia - Short Brothers (Production Company)

Olga Khlasheva

kinostudia_kaz@mail.ru

Beta Cinema (Sales Agent)

Cosima Finkbeiner

beta@betacinema.com

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