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| 5TH EURASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ASTANA, |
The 5th Eurasia International Film Festival transfers from Almaty to Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan in September.
Over 70 films will be screened during the 6-day festival – giving the Kazakh people, producers, distributors, selectors of other major film festivals and foreign journalists the possibility of discoveringthe best of contemporary Central Asian cinema.
The competition programme will include full-length feature films produced in 2007/2008 in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.
Guests at this year’s festival will include the producer Michael Fitzgerald (Under the Volcano and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada), writer Guillermo Arriaga (Babel and 21 Grams) and the actor Tommy Lee Jones (currently filming the US/Kazakh co-production In the Electric Mist).
The Argentinian writer/producer Lucrecia Martel, the Romanian director Nae Caranfil, China’s Johnny To and Jia Zhangke, the German Fatih Akin and Thierry Fremaux of the Cannes Film Festival are all expected to participate.
The Spanish actor Javier Bardem, Sean Penn and John Malkovich are also expected to attend. A number of Russia’s leading cinema figures will also take part, as well as Timur Bekmambetov, Alexander Baranov and Darezhan Omirbayev of Kazakhstan.
Entire evenings will be devoted to celebrating the 80th birthday of Kazakh actor Nurmukhan Zhanturin and the memory of Kyrgyzstan writer Chingiz Aitmatov.
As recently as 2002, Kazakhstan could only boast two home-produced films made during any 12-month period (Leila’s Prayer by Satybaldy Narymbetov and Truly Kazakh Story by Damir Manabay) but today -2008 - there are 20 full length features in production. Among them are Mustafa Shokai by
Satybaldy Narymbetov and Mahambet by Slambek Taukel – which deal with outstanding figures in recent Kazakh history (Mustafa Shokai was a politician who was exiled to France and saved the lives of 180,000 concentration camp prisoners during the World War II)…
Other films in production or post-production include the urban drama Akem Ekeumiz (Together with Father) by Daniyar Salamat and the musical comedy Aurelen (The Fuss ) by Sabit Kurmanbekov…
All the above-mentioned movies will be shown during the Festival. Also in the programme is director Ardak Amirkulov version of Chingiz Aitmatov’s short novel Farewell, Gulsary and Rymbek Alpiev’s Wolf Hour – an adaptation of Mukhtar Auezov’s story ‘Orphan’s Lot’.
Two features directed by women will also be shown - Karoy by Zhanna Issabayeva and Baksy by Gulshad Omarova (Karoy was featured in ‘The Horizons’ programme of last year’s Venice Film Festival, and Baksy took part in this year’s ‘Kinotavr’ competition).
For further information visit www.eurasiaiff.kz
www.kazakhstanlive.com
Information Centre for Kazakhstan
Marston-Nicholson
Tel: + 33 (0) 1 42 96 46 00
Fax: + 33 (0) 1 42 96 46 56
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| Author(s) : |
Marston-Nicholson |
| Date : |
18/07/2008 |
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