Two twenty-year-old young men are rolling joints in a small apartment
in Almaty, softly leaning towards each other. They are laughing
with great complicity until one of them whispers a poem he wrote… A
little later, the young poet is sleeping with a girl-friend. His mother
wakes him up and moralizes: One needs to work in life! "Life needs courage"
he answers before going back to his room to listen an Italian
opera sang by Maria Callas played on an old tape recorder….
"Some critics from Almaty pretended it was a film about today’s youth
in Kazakhstan. I am absolutely convinced they are wrong. It is a film
about the life of a man. It does not matter whether the story is contemporary
or not, whether you are as young as the hero or on the contrary
old: your life has the same meaning for you, life is a treasure…
Harmony is in life itself. " Ermek Chinarbaev
Source : Festival de Vezoul, 2012