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docs for sale IDFA 2022

Life

Жизнь
directed by Emir Baigazin
fiction
2022
Kazakhstan
172 min
Kazakh, Russian
Tags
  • post-Soviet space
  • cinema about cinema
  • video art
  • home video
  • psychedelic trip
  • existential choice
  • fate
  • midlife crisis
Festivals

 

Japan Tokyo International Film Festival (Competition) 2022

USA Asian World Film Festival (Official Selection ) 2022

Canada Toronto International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) 2022 World Premiere

Synopsis

The film tells about a young man who, solving his problems, finds himself in a string of events and people whose meanings of life form a kind of kaleidoscope.

Crew
Director&General producer Emir Baigazin
Producer Damir Tanatov
Film director Saule Kembulbaeva
Line Producer Damir Tanatov
Camera Akilbek Abdurakhmanov
Lighting Darkhan Serikov
Sound engineer Ilya Korobeinikov
Film editor Dauren Zhumabay
Editing assistant Burkitbayev Yerzhan, Marina Siebert
Costume designer Kamila Nurmagambetova
Director assistant Aina Zhakaeva
Stage designer Aidana Kozhageldina
Makeup artist Amina Kozhakhmetova, Elena Chumashkaeva, Marina Liang
Choreographer Anna Tsoi
Casting director Marina Siebert
Cast assistant director Dinara Ashu, Marina Siebert, Valeria Panova, Emir Zaripov
production by Remedy
Cast
Tassynov Yerkebulan Talgatovich — Arman
Panova Valeria Sergeevna — Rosa
Aitmukhanov Tleuken Boranbaevich — Kairat
Kapasova Zhanna — Bota
Temirlan Tulegenov — Malik
Zhangazin Zhalgas Agbaevich — Arsen
Khuramshina Karina Gizarovna — Madina
Cherny Alexander Vladimirovich — Misha
Zhamalbaeva Ainur Seilkhanovna — Aina
Burkitbaev Yerzhan Sabitovich — Aibol
Abaydeldinov Marat Mengalievich — Berik
Sadykov Bulat Gasanovich — Idris
Belgibaev Saken Talgatovich — Father Arman
Ibragimova Sholpan Nurgalievna — Mother of Arman
Long synopsys

The workplace of the protagonist Arman determines the value system of people: all the precious memories of humanity are reproduced there: weddings, “love stories”, births of children, corporate holidays and documentaries about ancestors. With the removal of this material, Arman becomes an indirect “murder of all Life, all Being” However, on the other hand, the fact that this kind of video is almost never watched some time after recording means the transience and fragility of life and our values.
The characters that Armand meets become his companions, creating a kind of kaleidoscope of life. Each of them represents in some way a piece of truth - as in Rumi's metaphor "truth is like pieces of a broken mirror".

Press
After watching "Life" by Emir Baigazin, I internally agreed with the decision of our Oscar Commission to make him an Oscar nominee from Kazakhstan. Undoubtedly, this is the best Kazakh film of this year. It is truly philosophical, deep and artistically rich.
Gulnara Abikeeva, Kazah Pravda
Notes from the director

Filming lasted for 3 years in Almaty, South Kazakhstan region, Aktau and Pattaya (Thailand). The film is 3 hours long.
 
The idea and story for this film came to me when I was preparing to shoot my first film exactly ten years ago. Despite the difficulties that the hero gets into, I always found this story filled with the love of life.
 
Yerkebulan Tasynov played the main role in the film. He was approved for this role at the level of writing a treatment. The first draft of the script was written by Emir Baigazin in residence in Los Angeles at the Golden Globe and Film Independent, the grant for which was received after winning the Venice Film Festival (“Best Director” section “Horizons”) in 2018 for the film “The River”. Filming for Life began in the fall of 2019. The director of photography was Emir Baigazin himself. The film "Life" was filmed by "Emir Baigazin Production" by order of the Ministry of Culture and Sports with the support of NJSC "SCPC".