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FESTIVALS & AWARDS

Winner Best Directors Starter Filmpreis LH München 2023, Special Mention GoEast Festival 2023,
Honorable Mention Filmschoolfest München 2023, Winner Jury Award Best Short Film Visions du
Reèl 2022, Shortlist Max Ophüls Preis 2023

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ARALKUM

 

SYNOPSIS:

 

A desert landscape, as if from another planet. A few lonely, rusty shipwrecks.  Low desert scrub grows around them to hold the sand together during the merciless storms.

 

Aralkum, the Aral Desert, is the bare seabed, the last thing left of the Aral Sea.  By weaving together different cinematic textures, the short film Aralkum re-imagines the dried-up Aral Sea, allowing an old fisherman to set sail one last time.

DIRECTOR / WRITER / PRODUCER

Mila Zhlutenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Sadriddin Shakhabiddinov

EDITOR

Mila Zhlutenko

PRODUCTION

© 2022 Daniel Asadi Faezi Filmproduktion, Lotas Film Mila Zhlutenko

COLOR BY OASYS

Nicholas Coleman

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