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Karlygash (translated from Kazakh as “swallow”) lives with her husband Ilyas and father-in-law on a horse farm, lost in the Kazakh steppe. She is a stranger to everyone here, and Ilyas has not yet forgotten his first love Aina. Everything changes with the arrival of a foreigner in their village – frenchman Louis, a photographer who went on a trip after breaking up with his wife.
< Director>
Born in the city of Shu, Kazakhstan in 1993, Malika did her degree at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (class of A. Eshpai & V. Fenchenko, 2021), majoring in feature film directing. Malika made her debut film Longer Than A Day in Kazakhstan in the autumn of 2022. Her subsequent films follow women’s stories, exploring the themes of loneliness and exclusion. Malika is the founder of QYZQARAS Initiative aiming to support women filmmakers in Kazakhstan.
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Malika Mukhamedzhan
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Malika Mukhamedzhan
