Burul

2024影展

PG 12 +

Adilet KARZHOEV
Kyrgyzstan
DCP
2024
Color
14min

Nominees and Awards

★ 2024 Giffoni Film Festival The Best Short Film
★ 2024 Durban International Film Festival

Synopsis

Burul, a rural high school, is interested in wrestling. The wrestling coach won't let her train at the boys' gym, so she trains at home alone. Her father believes that wrestling is not for girls and forbids her to do it. A guy from a neighboring village kidnaps Burul to marry her.

Team

Director

Adilet KARZHOEV

Adilet KARZHOEV was born in 1988 in Kyrgyzstan. He has produced several documentaries and fiction films that have screened at international film festivals. He currently teaches at the TV, Cinema and Visual Arts Department of the American University of Central Asia.

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