Directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy • 2008 • Kazakhstan

Sergei Dvortsevoy’s Cannes-awarded fiction feature debut is part ethnography, part romantic comedy, and part beginners’ guide to sheep-rearing. Recently demobbed from the Russian Navy, idealistic young Asa returns to his family home on Kazakhstan’s “Hunger Steppe” to eke out a living as a sheepherder. But before he can command his own flock, he must marry – and Tulpan, the only eligible bachelorette for miles, is far from keen. Working with non-professional locals and building his script out of their personal histories and aspirations, Dvortsevoy finds beauty and humour in the harshness of the landscape and the hardy people who inhabit it.

TULPAN • ТЮЛЬПАН
Directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy
Written by Sergei Dvortsevoy and Gennady Ostrovsky
Cinematography by Jola Dylewska
Starring: Askhat Kuchinchirekov, Samal Yeslyamova, Ondasyn Besikbasov

In Kazakh and Russian with English, Russian, and Kazakh subtitles

Winner of Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, 2008