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Sergei Dvorchevoy
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Set in a nomad shepherdÕs camp in the Southern Kazakhstan mountains, Paradise is a portrait of the simple life of the KazakhÕs. Not a conventional documentary, it is a lyrical film which looks at the beauty in everyday life. Having come across a tiny hamlet lost in the steppes of Kazakhstan by chance when flying over it, the filmmaker felt the need to get to know it intimately and to take the necessary time to shoot the film. Filmed over three months and using four cameramen, the films scope is both huge and modest, ranging from panoramas of the vast, wind-beaten steppes, to such homely images as a cow whose head gets stuck in a milk can, women baking bread in the soil, or a little boy eating his sour cream.
Trassa / HIGHWAY The life of the Tadshibaev family Ðcomprising
husband, wife and six childrenÐ a restless circus family traveling
along the Beijing-Moscow highway in a beat-up van which is also
their home. They travel along potholed roads, stop in remote villages
and make a living by presenting their show in the open air. |
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was born in Kazakhstan, in 1962. He graduated from the Aviation School
in Krivoy Rog, Ukraine, and the Radio Mechanics Department of Novosibirsk
Electromechanical Institute, and worked as a radio engineer for Aeroflot
for ten years before deciding to attend the VGIK in Moscow, where
he studied film direction and screenwriting, and from where he graduated
in 1993. His first film, Paradise, a documentary about nomadic shepherds
living on the Kazakh steppe, won numerous awards at international
film festivals, including the Grand Prize at the Documentary Film
Festival in Nyon, the Grand Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Krakow
Short Film Festival, the Golden Spire Prize at the San Francisco
Film Festival, and the First Prize for Best Short Film at the Documentary
Film Festival ÒCinema du RŽelÓ in Paris. His second film, also a
documentary entitled Bread Day, received several prizes at the Nyon
Film Festival, and was a winner at St. Petersburg, Leipzig, and San
Francisco, among others.
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Greek Films 2003 |
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Otar Iosseliani |
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Wong Kar-Wai |
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Joao Cesar Monteiro |
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Nikos Panagiotopoulos |