The city of Zhalanash in Kazakhstan, a former stronghold of Soviet economy, was once the border between a vast desert and the great Aral Sea, the continental lake in central Asia that is now drained. The evocative, empty landscape mirrors the hopes of the locals who live between shipwrecks and rusty cranes, clinging to each other in the face of the cruelness of nature and humans alike.
Zhalanash – Empty Shore
Zalanasz – Pustry Brzeg
20th TDF: Greek premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Marcin Sauter
- Cinematography: Marcin Sauter
- Editing: Michał Marczak, Ziemowit Jaworski, Katarzyna Orzechowska
- Sound: Marcin Lenarczyk
- Music: Jerzy Rogiewicz
- Production: Studio Filmowe Kronika
- Producers: Barbara Ławska
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Poland
- Production Year: 2017
- Duration: 40'
- Contact: Krakow Film Foundation, katarzyna@kff.com.pl
- Awards/Distinctions: Best Short Documentary – IDFA 2017 Polish Filmmakers Association Award – Krakow FF 2017 Golden Frog – Camerimage 2017, Poland
Marcin Sauter
Filmography
2005 The Travelling Cinema
2009 North From Calabria
2011 Hakawati
2017 Zhalanash – Empty Shore
