Kurak
Feature film | Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, France Switzerland, Luxembourg
Language: Kyrgyz
Directors: Erke Dzhumakmatova and Emil Atageldiev
Produced by: Studio Omyo (KG), Kairan Birimkulov KBP (CH), Spirito Libero (SE), Girelle (FR), Deal Productions
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Genre: Social Drama
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Status: Post-Production
About the Film:
A young girl, secretly working as a webcam model becomes the victim of a blackmailer – a law enforcement officer. Fearing publicity, she is forced to enter into an intimate relationship with him.
A mother, whose young daughter commits suicide after she has been raped and videos have been leaked on the Internet, tries in vain to get a fair investigation. The rapist being the son of a powerful politician, her efforts seem in vain...
On the background of these tragic stories, the real news run through the entire narrative as a red line about injustice against women in Kyrgyzstan. Particularly two events, the exhibition "Feminalle" and a protest march dedicated to the problems of violence against women, were attacked by national patriots, who accused the organizers and participants of LGBT propaganda, resulting is the participants being the ones arrested by the police...
Through the eyes of a female journalist, who unsuccessfully tries to appeal about these news, women in Kyrgyzstan symbolically remain, as always, invisible to the justice system...