(This film will be screened at Tokyo Venue only.) It’s said that all desires and fears arise specifically in the ego. The film is about the relationship of man and woman. But this is only an illusion, imagination, which arose in the mind like a dream. And there is nothing real in this, as ego a man. A surreal drama by a young and promised female director from Kazakhstan. Japan Premiere!
Director: Sharipa Urazbayeva. 2014, 14min., HD720, color, Kazakhstan. Drama. No Dialog.
Screening Date/Time
Tokyo: Sun, July 29, 12:30~ (International Shorts)
Sharipa Urazbayeva was born in 1985. Graduated from the Kazakh National Academy of Arts after named T.Zhurgenov in “Film and TV Production” (2010), in 2013 graduated High course of directors in the Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts, workshop by Georgian director I.M.Kvirikadze. 2013 passed the international internship to study the technology of film in Lisbon University Nova (Portugal). She directed several short films that have become winners of the international short film festivals.
Filmography
1. The Potato Eaters 2016, 15 min. Kazakhstan.
Baikonur Grand Prize: Republican cinema Festival. Kazakhstan, 2016
2. Ego 2014, 14 min. Kazakhstan.
Official Selection: FlEXiff, 2014, Australia
Official Selection: 8th Psarokokalo Athens International Short Film Festival, 2014
3. Mimi 2013, 25 min. Kazakhstan.
4. Boomerang 2013, 10 min. Kazakhstan-Portugal.
5. Source/Bestau 2012, 10 min. Kazakhstan.
Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival, “Short film corner,” 2013.
Official Selection: The 4th Art-house Film Festival, 2013. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Official Selection: No Time Left festival, 2013, Paris, France.
Best Film Prize: Yes Em, 2014. Yerevan, Armenia.
Official Selection: AkBuzat, 2014. The Republic of Bashkortostan.
Best Experimental Film Prize: 8th Varesh Int’l Filmfestival, 2015. Iran.
6. Unexpected Guest 2010. Kazakhstan.