Kazakh Movie “Poet” Wins Greatest Image at Portuguese Movie Competition

ASTANA – The Kazakh movie “Poet” directed by Darezhan Omirbayev, received Greatest Image on the Lisbon & Sintra Movie Competition 2022 (LEFFEST) held on Nov. 10-20 in Portugal, reported the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Tradition and Sports activities.

The annual movie pageant showcases the very best movies from Europe, Asia, and South and North America. This yr, a well-known French director Olivier Assayas chaired the pageant jury, whereas the visitor listing featured American actor John Malkovich and Canadian director David Cronenberg.

The Greatest Image award is given to “probably the most excellent movie for including some innovation to the cinematographic language,” in line with the LEFFEST web site.

The video follows Didar, a poet who considers the function of poetry within the age of digital content material and social media. Didar is shaken to his core after studying a poem written by a poet executed by the Soviet Union and reconsiders his expertise.

“Earlier than coming to Lisbon, we had interviews with main French media shops. We additionally visited the pageant of Kazakh cinema in Paris, the place Darezhan acquired an award for his contribution to the co-production improvement between Kazakhstan and France. Earlier than that, we had been in Vienna, the place the pageant celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. The Viennale launched a e book about his work! I feel that is the primary e book a few Kazakh director printed overseas,” stated Yulia Kim, the movie’s producer, who got here to the LEFFEST screening with Omirabayev.

Yerdos Kanayev, Kazakh singer, who performed the lead within the movie. Photograph credit score: inform.kz.

The “Poet,” dubbed in Kazakh “Akyn,” premiered in 2021 as a part of the Tokyo Movie Competition, the place it acquired the Greatest Director award. It additionally acquired the Greatest Movie award on the Olhar de Cinema in Brazil this yr and was screened through the 72nd annual Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition.