Kam Sanabanyz (Everything Is OK) 2007
Kam Sanabanyz (Everything Is OK) 2007
DVCAM, TRANSFERRED TO BETACAM SP, 4:3, COLOUR, SOUND, 17 MINUTES, KYRGYZSTAN, KYRGYZ (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) / PRODUCERS: ALTYNAI KOYCHUMANOVA AND AKTAN ARYM KUBAT / CINEMATOGRAPHER: MICHAIL PETROV / EDITORS: AKJOLTOY BEKBOLOTOV AND IZAT ABDRAIMOV/ SOUND IZAT ABDRAIMOV / CAST: BALKHASH UULU RENAT AND TURAT UULU KUBAN / PRODUCTION CO: KYRGYZSTAN-TURKEY ‘MANAS’ UNIVERSITY, FUND OF THE DEVELOPMENT CINEMA WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE HIVOS FUND / DISTRIBUTION KYRGYZSTAN-TURKEY ‘MANAS’ UNIVERSITY / DISTRIBUTOR GULBARA TOLOMUSHOVA / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND GULBARA TOLOMUSHOVA
Bekbolotov began his career working in a film studio as a clip-maker and as an actor in short film before graduating from Kyrgyzstan-Turkey ‘Manas’ university in 2007. In his native Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan official statistics account for the existence of approximately 24,000 homeless children, but the unofficial number is considerably higher. Made in Bekbolotov’s graduation year, Everything Is OK follows a homeless orphan, Sheraly, who takes runaway Kyyalbek under his wing. He tries to protect Kyyalbek from the ‘bad habits’ of the homeless world. Each evening Sheraly visits his mother’s grave to recount the daily events from an invented life at grammar school, telling her that ‘everything is ok’. When Kyyalbek asks why he is lying, Sheraly explains that his mother had already had a hard life and he does not want to worry her in the afterlife.
Contact: Sun 18 Oct 1.00pm (with Stairway + Squatterpunk) and Sat 31 Oct 3.00pm (with Taste of Noodles + The Woman Who Is Beating the Earth) / Cinema A
Phone: Akjoltoy BEKBOLOTOV
b. 1983 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Lives in Bishkek
