Directed by

Sergey Dvortsevoy

With

Askhat Kuchinchirekov, Samal Yeslyamova, Ondasyn Besikbasov, Tulepbergen Baisakalov, Bereke Turganbayev

Producers:

Karl Baumgartner, Valerie Fischer, Gulnara Sarsenova, Bulat Galimgereyev, Sergey Melkumov, Elena Yatsoura, Sergei Seyanov, Henryk Romanowski, Thanassis Karathanos, Raimond Goebel

Screenplay:

Sergey Dvortsevoy, Gennady Ostrovskiy

Camera:

Jola Dylewska

Editors:

Isabel Meier, Peter Markovic

Screening Format:

DigiBeta

Awards and Honors:

Prix Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix at Tokyo Film Festival. Best Feature at Asia Pacific Awards. Tulpan is the Best Foreign Language Academy Award submission from Kazakhstan.

W

inner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, acclaimed Kazakh documentarian Sergey DvortsevoyÕs first narrative feature is a gorgeous mŽlange of tender comedy, ethnographic drama and wildlife extravaganza. Following his Russian naval service, young dreamer Asa returns to his sisterÕs nomadic brood on the desolate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for milesÑhis alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie mag-reading sidekick Boni (and a menagerie of adorable lambs, stampeding camels, mewling kittens and mischievous children), Asa will stop at nothing to prove he is a worthy husband and herder. In the tradition of such crowd-pleasing travelogues as The Story of the Weeping Camel, TulpanÕs gentle humor and stunning photography transport audiences to this singular, harshly beautiful region and its rapidly vanishing way of life (Zeitgeist Films).

Contemporary Arts Alliance wishes to acknowledge the partnership of Zeitgeist Films in presenting Tulpan.

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