28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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The Drop
The Drop
The Drop

The Drop

director: Elnura Tashbaeva
original title: Tamchy
country: Kyrgyzstan
year: 2019
running time: 20 min.

synopsis

Like other miners, Chyngyz works twenty four hours under difficult conditions of the confined space of a shaft where miners risk a lot all the time. Although they work in fear for their lives, they are grateful for the work in the mine because it allows them to feed their families. The observation camera moves from stylized pictorial compositions of a morning journey to the mine to long sequences following the movement of miners in the shaft and their routine work to show their fate in an intense and immediate composite image.

“One of the heroes of this film reenacts the famous pose in film Titanic, he wants to be Jack. He sings as he asks for raindrops when the time of love comes.” E. Tashbaeva

biography

Kyrgyz director Elnur Tashbaeva (born in 1993) studied at the Department of Radio, Television and Film, Manas University, in 2012–2016. She has also worked as a TV presenter and radio DJ and has produced the short film Tandoo (directed by Meerim Dogdurbekova).

more about film

director: Elnura Tashbaeva
producer: Elnura Tashbaeva
script: Elnura Tashbaeva
photography: Karash Janyshov, Hairulla Rahmatilla uulu
editing: Elnura Tashbaeva
sound: Kalybek Sherniyaz
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