SULEIMAN MOUNTAIN

By Elizaveta STISHOVA

KARLOVY VARY INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

First film - Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2017
Discovery
Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon IFFl 2017
Public Award
Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon IFFl 2017
Roberto Rossellini Award for Best Film
Karlovy Vary IFF 2018
East of the West - Competition Winner
Palm Springs IFF 2018
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • RUSSIA, POLAND, KYRGYZSTAN
    • Languages
    • KYRGYZ
    • Budget
    • 3 - 5 M$
    • Duration
    • 102 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Elizaveta STISHOVA
    • Writer(s)
    • Alisa KHMELNITSKAYA
    • Producer(s)
    • Yelena YATSURA (VIRTUAL KICK STUDIO)
    • Synopsis
    • Karabas is a difficult man: a hard-gambling, hard-drinking, child-in-a-man’s body who puts only himself first in his family. When his wife #1, Zhipara, calls to tell him she has found their long-lost son, Uluk (Daniel Dayrbekov), Karabas rushes to her, much to the dismay of his much younger, pregnant wife #2, Turganbyubyu.
      Soon the new family dynamics are stretched past their limits, and Karabas is caught between his old ways and the two women bearing his sons: one re-born and one yet to come.
      Now this unusual family must decide if they are to co-exist or tear each other apart as old wounds are ripped open and deception becomes the rule of the day.
      Shot on location in and around the mystic World Heritage Site of the Suleiman Mountain in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, SULEIMAN MOUNTAIN tells the coming of age story of a grown man who must first lose love in order to find it.