Five directors, one city, and everyone's secretly miserable. Kyrgyzstan's chaotic love letter to itself.
The film is dedicated to the capital of Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek and its young people. They have dreams how to find their ways in life. There is a couple which meets after 5 years of separation in the airport and she finds out that he has a wife and kids. There are 2 candidates for a job, but one is a son of rich and established family, so he got the place through family connections while a poor guy stays jobless. There are a grandson and grandfather who broke a vase and try to find another one, so the mother/daughter would not notice the loss. It is all about our life, nice daily stories of a small town citizen.
Direction
Five distinct voices somehow mesh into one coherent city portrait.
Production
Bishkek itself: crumbling Soviet architecture as silent character.
Writing
The airport reunion scene cuts deeper than any Hollywood breakup.
Director
Ruslan Akun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Kyrgyzstan's post-2010 revolution instability, the film captures a capital city negotiating identity between Soviet legacy and uncertain independence.
Director Ruslan Akun later became a major figure in Kyrgyz cinema; this anthology format was virtually unprecedented for the country's film industry at the time.
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