Adilkhan Yerzanov has created a style of his own, with his intelligent humor, pointed satire, western-like violence and dystopian-looking locations. His overall approach, with the exception of violence (at least physical one) finds its apogee in “Ademoka”, a movie that just won the Netpac Award at the Warsaw Film Festival.
Ademoka screened at Warsaw Film Festival
The titular girl is an immigrant from Kyrgyzstan, who lives in Kazakhstan with her family and a number of fellow refugees, forced to be a beggar in order to survive. During a police raid, though, a policeman sees her sketches, and, realizing her talent, tells her to go to a local school and ask for Ahab, a man who will supposedly help her enroll. It is there Ademoka’s odyssey begins, as she finds herself fighting with a Kafkian system that seems to be set against her, with the help she eventually receives from Ahab being quite questionable,...
Ademoka screened at Warsaw Film Festival
The titular girl is an immigrant from Kyrgyzstan, who lives in Kazakhstan with her family and a number of fellow refugees, forced to be a beggar in order to survive. During a police raid, though, a policeman sees her sketches, and, realizing her talent, tells her to go to a local school and ask for Ahab, a man who will supposedly help her enroll. It is there Ademoka’s odyssey begins, as she finds herself fighting with a Kafkian system that seems to be set against her, with the help she eventually receives from Ahab being quite questionable,...
- 10/23/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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