IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
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<strong>IFFI</strong>-<strong>2008</strong><br />
COMPETITION<br />
Kazakhstan-Germany-Switzerland-Russia-Poland<br />
Tulpan<br />
<strong>2008</strong>, 35 mm Colour, 100 min, Kazakh- Russian<br />
After completing his naval service, young Asa travels back to the Kazakh steppe where<br />
his sister and her shepherd husband live a nomadic life. To start his new life, eager Asa<br />
must get married first before he can become a shepherd himself. Asa's only hope for<br />
marriage on the deserted steppe is Tulpan, daughter <strong>of</strong> another shepherd family. Poor<br />
Asa is disappointed to learn that Tulpan doesn't like him because she thinks that his ears<br />
are too big. But Asa doesn't give up and he continues to dream <strong>of</strong> a life that may not be<br />
possible on the steppe.<br />
Direction<br />
Sergei Dvortsevoy<br />
Screenplay<br />
Sergei Dvortsevoy and Gennadi Ostrovsky<br />
Cinematography<br />
Jolanta Dylewska<br />
Editor<br />
Petar Markovic and Isabel Meier<br />
Cast<br />
Tolepbergen Baisakalov (Boni), Ondasyn Besikbasov (Ondas),<br />
Zhappas Dzhailaubaev (Brigade leader), Samal Eslyamova<br />
(Samal), Tazhyban Kalykulova (Mother), Askat<br />
Kuchinchirekov (Asa )<br />
Art<br />
Roger Martin<br />
Sound<br />
Eric Tisserand, Williams Sshmit<br />
Costume<br />
Gaziza Korshiyeva<br />
Production<br />
Pallas <strong>Film</strong> and Pandora <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
World Sales<br />
The Match Factory<br />
Balthasarstrasse 79-81<br />
50670 Cologne, Germany<br />
T: +49 221 539 709-0<br />
F: +49 221 539 709-10<br />
Email: info@matchfactory.de<br />
www.the-match-factory.com<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>s & Awards<br />
Cannes (Un Certain Regard Award), London (Sutherland<br />
Award for outstanding feature by a debut director), Zurich<br />
(Golden Eye Award), Karlovy Vary, Toronto, New York,<br />
Telluride, Tokyo (Sakura Grand Prix), Reykjavik (Golden<br />
Puffin for Best <strong>Film</strong>), Kazakhstan's <strong>of</strong>ficial entry for the Best<br />
st<br />
Foreign <strong>Film</strong> Oscar at the 81 Academy Awards, 2009.<br />
(<strong>Film</strong> Courtesy NDTV Lumiere)<br />
Sergey Dvortsevoy has directed several short and medium-length documentary films<br />
which have won top prizes at many festivals. Sergey prefers to describe his awardwinning<br />
films In the Dark, Highway, Bread Day and Paradise as "life cinema." His goal<br />
has always been to show the simplicity and warmth <strong>of</strong> the world in a mixture <strong>of</strong><br />
naturalism and poetry. Born in 1962 in Kazakhstan, Sergey graduated from Aviation<br />
college in the Ukraine and the Radiotechnical-Institut in Novosibirsk. As an Aer<strong>of</strong>lot<br />
radio engineer, he travelled all over the country, until he saw an announcement for higher<br />
education in directing and screenwriting in Moscow.<br />
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