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Tributes - Darezhan Omirbayev
Two boys on a hot summer afternoon on the steppe wander into a Bollywood movie. They want to go back for the second show but don't have enough money for a ticket, so they think up a scheme to earn the cash. Recounting the "plot" of this glorious short film from Darezhan Omirbaev doesn't begin to do it justice - it's as controlled a piece of filmmaking as you could hope to find, and a beautiful evocation of the landscape of childhood. Omirbaev was a master right from the start.
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Original Title:
Shilde -
Country:
Kazakhstan -
Year:
1988 - 26' Subtitles: Portuguese
Director
Darezhan Omirbayev
Director and screenwriter, he was born in Kazakhstan, 1958, and was acclaimed by Jean-Luc Godard as "one of the most astonishing filmmakers working today", Darezhan Omirbayev studied Applied Mathematics in Kazakhstan, later embracing cinema when moving to Russia in 1983. After a brief foray into film criticism, he directed Kairat, his first feature-film, in 1991, earning the FIPRESCI Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. Endowed with an outstanding sensibility to detail, Omirbayev is able to portray, in every social microcosm that composes his work, the monotony of everyday life in Kazakhstan and the little nothings that define human existence.