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
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