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Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Mountain Onion (2022)
Kazakhstan |
2022 |
90 min.
Eleven-year-old Jabai sells mountain onions alongside the highway and one day he catches his idol trucker having sex with his mom. Jabai and his sister, Saniya, embark on a journey from their small village in Kazakhstan to China, to obtain the only thing that will save their father and help him become a strong man, the ‘Golden Viagra’.
| Country | Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Duration | 90 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | Kazakh, Mandarin, Russian |
| Subtitle | Czech, English |
| Directed by | Eldar Shibanov |
| Screenplay | Eldar Shibanov, Yuliya Levitskaya |
| Director of Photography | Dias Shibanov |
| Edited by | Arseniy Abdrakhmanov |
| Contact | Lights On |
Biography
Director and screenwriter from Kazakhstan. He studied directing and acting in the USA. Through a family production company, he has made, e.g., a short film Sex, Fear, and Hamburgers (2018) and a feature-length comedy drama Mountain Onion (Gornyi luk, 2022).
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