Section: Short Film Competition

Towarischtsch polizjejskij

Comrade Policeman

Assel Aushakimova

Kazakhstan, 2020, 13 Min

How should you shoot a TV report in the absence of the protagonists? A Kazakh TV team shows how it is done in this absurd situation comedy, narrated with a serious tone.

Filmformat
1:1.85

Drehbuch
Assel Aushakimova

Kamera
Sardar Baimoldin

Ton
Erlan Utepbergenov

Schnitt
Assel Aushakimova

Ausstattung
Assel Aushakimova

Darsteller
Dinara Alieva, Daniyar Beysov, Askhat Turebayev, Duysenbek Atantayuli

Produzent
Assel Aushakimova

Produktion
RISK PICTURES

Co-Produktion
Zhanna Utarbayeva

Kontakt
RISK PICTURES
Assel Aushakimova
assel.aushakimova@gmail.com

Assel Aushakimova - Kazakhstani director, screenwriter and producer. Assel graduated from the International Film Business Academy of the Busan Asian Film School in 2021. She has directed three short films. Her first feature film WELCOME TO THE USA had its world premiere at AFI Fest 2019 (New Auteurs). This is the first feature film in Kazakhstan with the protagonist from the LGBTQ community. It was awarded Grand Jury Prize as Best International Narrative Feature of NewFest New York’s LGBTQ Film Festival 2020.

2020 Comrade policeman (short, fiction)
2019 Welcome to the USA (fiction)
2018 The news (short, fiction)
2017 So tired (short, fiction)

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