Kazakh writer-director Emir Baigazin's poetic drama of a marginalized teenage boy has the distinction of being the only first feature selected for Berlin's official competition. By David Rooney Chief ...
Aslan is a 13-year-old loner who lives with his grandmother on a farm somewhere on the steppes of Kazakhstan. When he goes to school, he becomes the victim of bullying by the local thug Bolat. Shy and ...