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Plot Summary: The film follows Asa, a young man returning from his Russian naval service to his sister’s nomadic family on the desolate Hunger Steppe of central Asia. Eager to start his own life as a shepherd, Asa must first win the hand of the only eligible girl in miles, his mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Director: Sergey Dvortsevoy Starring: Askhat Kuchinchirekov as Asa Samal Yeslyamova as Samal Ondasyn Besikbasov as Ondas Tulepbergen Baisakalov as Boni   ***SPOILER ALERT*** Realism and Raw Authenticity Today we are leaving Kazakhstan with the movie "Tulpan" by Sergey Dvortsevoy, who also directed our first movie of the week, " Ayka ." Let me tell you, right away, that this is an amazing, unbelievable film. If in yesterday's documentary, "The Eagle Huntress," I felt that I was watching something fictional, today was the opposite. Some scenes are so real that it look...

Plot Summary: The film follows the lives of four adolescent boys in a rural village in mid-1990s Kazakhstan, each grappling with their own personal struggles and self-destructive behaviors. Set against a backdrop of socio-economic upheaval, the film portrays their search for purpose and direction in a bleak and challenging environment. Director: Emir Baigazin Screenplay: Emir Baigazin Starring: Nurlybek Saktaganov as Zharas Madiyar Aripbay as Chick Madiyar Nazarov as Toad Omar Adilov as Aslan   ***SPOILER ALERT*** Visual Symbolism and Atmosphere Third day in Kazakhstan, and now we are in deep! As you must already know from the synopsis, we have four different stories that loosely connect in the end, or at least you know the four different pre-teen kids you're going to spend some boring time with come from the same remote village. And damn, shit looks really boring out there. Baigazin em...