Rejected (2018)
This is the story of a young woman, Aiganym, who was born into the Orthodox Kazakh family from the South of Kazakhstan. When she was a student at the college in the capital city of Kazakhstan, she gave birth to a boy. Right after giving birth, her family cursed her and rejected her and her newborn son because she was a single mother. After seven years, Timur, her son, was not able to accomplish his homework assignment “to draw a family tree”. Aiganym decides to return to her parents’ house, so that her son has a big family. Regardless of the fact that each time, she wants to return, her eldest brother beats her up, she keeps on returning home again and again…
Director: Zhanna Issabayeva
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Zhanargul Zhanyamanova as Aiganym |
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Indira Kulmagambetova as |
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Esim Turarbek as |
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Raikhan Kalioldina as |
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Nyshanbek Zhubanaev as |
| Writing | Zhanna Issabayeva | Writer |
| Writing | Victor Nemchenko | Writer |
| Camera | Mikhail Blintsov | Director of Photography |
| Production | Saken Usser | Producer |
| Directing | Zhanna Issabayeva | Director |
| Editing | Victor Brodyagin | Editor |
| Art | Nurbolat Zhapakov | Art Direction |
| Production | Alisher Yelikbayev | Producer |
| Sound | Dmitri Mazulevski | Sound Designer |
| Production | Zhanna Issabayeva | Producer |
| Production | Artur Issabayev | Executive Producer |