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22 Dec 15
YARAT Contemporary Art Space are pleased to invite you to a next meeting of the Film Club which has already turned into an informal meeting point for discussion of contemporary cinematograph. We invite you to watch a short film “Harmony Lessons” of Emir Baigazin, Kazakh director 22 December 2015.
Harmony Lessons / 2013 / Kazakhstan, Germany / 115 min / Drama / Colour
“Harmony Lessons’’ is a 2013 Kazakh-German drama film directed by Emir Baigazin. The film premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival where Aziz Zhambakiyev won the award for an outstanding artistic contribution.
Harmony Lessons is set in a small Kazakhstan village, where Aslan, a thirteen-year-old boy living with his grandmother is a diligent student, bullied by an older boy Bolat and his gang connected with adult criminals and prisoners. The plot concerns Aslan's humiliations, and slow revenge.
Emir Baigazin was born in Tamdy village, Alga District in the Aktobe Province of Kazakhstan. After graduating from high school in Alga from 2002 to 2004 he studied at the acting school of the T. Akhtanov Aktobe Drama Theater, and in 2004 entered the Kazakh National Academy of Arts, with the specialty of film direction and cinema. In September 2007, he participated in the Busan International Film Festival, the Asian Film Academy (AFA). In February 2008, he was a member of the Berlin camp of young talent at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival in Germany
Films will be shown in Kazakhi will Russian subtitles
12 +
Date: December 22, 2015
Time: 19.00
Venue: YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Multifunctional Room
Contact phone: +99412 505 1414
Admission: FREE