Kurai Kurai - Verhalen met de Wind
Kurai Kurai - Tales on the Wind
This debut feature film from documentary filmmaker and photographer Marjoleine Boonstra conjures up the mythology of the Kyrgyz steppe with the help of spectacular picture composition. On his travels Emo encounters a number of individuals who, despite the challenges of everyday life surrounded by a sparse, cold and yet fascinating landscape, manage to make ends meet as best they can. Capturing sight of tumbleweed, carried by the wind over the dusty plain, he comprehends the secret of the Kurai: everything comes and goes with the winds of time and nobody knows from whence they come, nor whither they lead. You thus have to simply take life as it comes. SwS
DCP | Farbe / colour
Céline Linssen
Goert Giltay
Diego van Uden
Elsje de Bruijn, Sharif Jailobaev
Harry de Wit
Talgat Kelimbetov, Tatiana Gorobchenko, Tynar Abdrazaeva
Oy Art Film Producing Company
Urban Distribution International
Arnaud Bélangeon-Bouaziz
14 rue du 18 Août
93100 Montreuil
France
Tel.: 033.1.48.70.46 56
arnaud@urbandistrib.com
www.urbandistrib.com
Marjoleine Boonstra - born 1959, the Netherlands. She studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Groningen, the Netherlands, and subsequently studied film, cinematography and editing at the Film Academy in Amsterdam. Since 1990 she cooperates with the Dutch television channel “Humanist Broadcast Foundation”. In addition she exhibits her photo art.
ONZE MAN IN KAZACHSTAN (1993, short, doc)
ULAY – IN PHOTOGRAPHY (1998)
A BAD DREAM (2006, short, doc)
KEEP ON STEPPIN', SEVEN NEW ORLEANS SKETCHES (2007, doc)
AMONGS HORSES & MEN (2011, doc)
