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
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75016 Paris
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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.
