Nomad drama Stranger headlines London-based Asian festival.
Asia House Film Festival (Feb 22-Mar 5), held in London, has unveiled the line-up for its 2016 edition and revealed it will open with Ermek Tursunov’s Stranger (Zhat) - Kazakhstan’s submission for the 88th Academy Awards.
The period drama, which debuted at Toronto in September, centres on a young man who survived the famine of the 1930s, Stalinist deportation and Second World War by retreating in a cave to live off the land, but finds himself battling society in a bid to retain his freedom.
Tursunov and the film’s producer, Kanat Torebay, will host a Q&A session following the screening.
The director, whose previous feature Old Man (Shal) was selected as Kazakhstan’s official submission for the Oscars in 2012 and had nomadic drama Kelin shortlisted in 2010, will also present the European premiere of his latest film, Little Brother (Kenzhe), at London’s newly reopened Regent Street Cinema and will...
Asia House Film Festival (Feb 22-Mar 5), held in London, has unveiled the line-up for its 2016 edition and revealed it will open with Ermek Tursunov’s Stranger (Zhat) - Kazakhstan’s submission for the 88th Academy Awards.
The period drama, which debuted at Toronto in September, centres on a young man who survived the famine of the 1930s, Stalinist deportation and Second World War by retreating in a cave to live off the land, but finds himself battling society in a bid to retain his freedom.
Tursunov and the film’s producer, Kanat Torebay, will host a Q&A session following the screening.
The director, whose previous feature Old Man (Shal) was selected as Kazakhstan’s official submission for the Oscars in 2012 and had nomadic drama Kelin shortlisted in 2010, will also present the European premiere of his latest film, Little Brother (Kenzhe), at London’s newly reopened Regent Street Cinema and will...
- 1/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
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