Kurak (2025)
Based on true events, several stories about disempowerment of women, are closely intertwined, affecting to each other's, unfolding against the background of the traditional, patriarchal society of modern-day Kyrgyzstan ultimately result in a series of tragic outcomes. The realities of modern-day Kyrgyzstan, despite the status of a "secular state", are violence, hypocrisy, and widespread infringement of the rights of women who are stay a socially unprotected part of the population. Under the conditions of aggressive propaganda of both patriarchal and radical, religious ideology, the ideas of feminism in Kyrgyzstan are equated with the popularization of LGBTQ communities, are openly criticized and the justice system, in most cases, takes the side of murderers and rapists.
Directors: Erke Dzhumakmatova, Emil Atageldijev.
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Begaiym Asanakunova as Jyldyz |
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Ainura Kachkynbai Kyzy as Nargiza |
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Aliman Ryspekova as Meerim |
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Amangeldy Abdrahmanov as Aibek |
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Atai Omurbekov as Kanat |
| Directing | Erke Dzhumakmatova | Director |
| Writing | Erke Dzhumakmatova | Writer |
| Directing | Emil Atageldijev | Director |
| Production | Pavel Feldman | Producer |
| Production | Katerina Tarbo-Ignatenko | Producer |
| Production | Kairat Birimkulov | Producer |
| Production | Milos Djukelic | Producer |
| Production | Erke Dzhumakmatova | Producer |
| Sound | Raffaele Petrucci | Music |
| Editing | Nurdoolot Tashmatov | Editor |
| Art | Svetlana Dubina | Production Design |
