

Kurai, Kurai
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.
Director: Marjoleine Boonstra
Writer: Celine Linssen
(Co-)producers: Volya Films (NL), OY Art (KY)
Release Date: 27/09/2014
Partners: Netherlands Film Fund, Rotterdam Media Fund, Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation, With the support of the Creative Europe Programme – MEDIA of the European Union
Length: 85 minutes
Genre: Feature Film
DoP: Goert Giltaij
Editor: Menno Boerema
Sound engineer: Diego van Uden
Sound designer: Ranko Paukovic
Composer: Harry de Wit
Festivals: Febiofest IFF 2015 | Vesoul IFF 2015 | Netherlands Film Festival 2014
With the support of the Creative Europe Programme – MEDIA of the European Union