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KURAI, KURAI

NFF, 2014

Drama

85'

SYNOPSIS

Kurai, Kurai is a myth in modern dress set in an unfamiliar land where the rules we know don’t apply, and characterised by a desert landscape, the wind, and above all the ever rolling ‘kurai’ (tumbleweed), which takes us on a journey into the unknown. After he finds out that his lover, Vera, is pregnant but doesn’t know by whom, Emo goes on a journey. He leaves Vera and the city, to return to the land of his birth – the land of the kurai – to find out where he comes from and where he should go. This teaches Emo to take life as it comes, and he finally understands the riddle of the kurai. He comes home to find himself, as it were.

PEOPLE

Director

Marjoleine Boonstra

Writer

Celine Linssen

Main cast

Talgat Kelimbetov, Tatiana Gorobchenko, Taynar Abdrazaeva, Aman Mambetakunov

Crew

DoP: Goert Giltaij
Composer: Harry de Wit

(Co-) Producers

Financiers

Volya Films (NL), OY Art (KY)

Netherlands Film Fund, Rotterdam Media Fund, Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation, With the support of the Creative Europe Programme – MEDIA of the European Union

FESTIVALS

2014 Nederlands Film Festival, Winner of the Audience Award

2015 Vesoul IFF - Competition - Prix Emile Guimet

2015 Febiofest International Film Festival

2016 Dutch Mountain Film Festival

TRAILER

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