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Janyl Jusupjan’s documentary focuses on a young woman getting involved in the male-dominated horseback sport Buzkashi.
Cologne-based sales outfit New Docs has taken world rights to Atirkül In The Land of Real Men, a film receiving its international premiere in IDFA’s Luminous section later this week.
Directed by Janyl Jusupjan, the Czech-produced documentary looks at Buzkashi, a highly popular horseback sport in Kyrgyzstan. The goal is to steal a dead goat from the rival team of riders without being knocked out of the saddle. The film’s main protagonist is a young woman Atirkül, bored with her husband...
Cologne-based sales outfit New Docs has taken world rights to Atirkül In The Land of Real Men, a film receiving its international premiere in IDFA’s Luminous section later this week.
Directed by Janyl Jusupjan, the Czech-produced documentary looks at Buzkashi, a highly popular horseback sport in Kyrgyzstan. The goal is to steal a dead goat from the rival team of riders without being knocked out of the saddle. The film’s main protagonist is a young woman Atirkül, bored with her husband...
- 11/8/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
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Directed by Serhiy Lysenko, the project won the East Doc Platform Award and the Current Time TV Director’s Award. 72 Hours and Kix - A Story of a Street Kid are also among the winners. Organised by the Institute of Documentary Film, the tenth edition of East Doc Platform (Edp), the largest industry platform for Central and Eastern European documentaries, welcomed over 400 guests. Unfolding online this time, from 6-17 March, the extended digital version offered a number of lectures, presentations and masterclasses on top of the networking activities. Directed by Serhiy Lysenko, Ukrainian project Lagoons. A Battle for Paradise was the winner of the main prize, the East Doc Platform Award 2021, as decided by the jury comprising Asta Dalman (Svt), Luisa Schwamborn (New Docs) and Jane Mote (The Whickers), who highlighted “very strong scenes and characters and themes about man's greed versus the protection of the natural world”....
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