Directed by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov • 1991 • USSR/Tajikistan

This restoration of the debut feature from Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, the director who put Tajik cinema on the international map, is a gem of Central Asia film from the very end of the Soviet era. This Huckleberry Finn-style adventure follows two brothers – teenage Farukh (Firuz Sabsaliev) and seven-year-old Azamat (Timur Tursunov) – on a train ride across the plains and mountains of Tajikistan in search of their estranged father, who works in a sanatorium on the Afghan border. A touching and rarely seen snapshot of a nation on the verge of definitive change, Brother is also a moving evocation of childhood and adolescence.

BROTHER • БРАТАН
Directed by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
Written by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov and Leonid Kachmanov
Cinematography by Georgi Dzalayev
Music by Achmad Bakajev
Starring: Timur Tursunov, Firuz Sabsaliev, N. Arifova

In Russian and Tajik with English subtitles