REJECTED / ОТВЕРГНУТЫЕ

KAZAKHSTAN
2018, 95 MIN.
Director Zhanna Issabayeva
Script Zhanna Issabayeva, Victor Nemchenko
Camera Mikhail Blintsov
Art Director Nurbolat Zhapakov
Music Omnibus Ensemble
Cast: Zhanargul Zhanyamanova, Nushanbek Zhybanayev, Raikhan Kalioldina, Indira Kulmagambetova, Esim Turarbek
Producers Alisher Yelikbayev, Saken Usser, Zhanna Issabayeva
Production SUNPRODUCTION

This is the story of a young woman, Aiganym, who was born into the Orthodox Kazakh family from the South of Kazakhstan. When she was a student at the college in the capital city of Kazakhstan, she gave birth to a boy. Right after giving birth, her family cursed her and rejected her and her newborn son because she was a single mother. After seven years, Timur, her son, was not able to accomplish his homework assignment “to draw a family tree”. Aiganym decides to return to her parents’ house, so that her son has a big family. Regardless of the fact that each time, she wants to return, her eldest brother beats her up, she keeps on returning home again and again…

ZHANNA ISSABAYEVA

Producer, film director, scriptwriter. Born in Almaty (Kazakhstan, USSR). In 1991 graduated from the faculty of journalism of the Kazakh State University. Prizewinner of national and international film festivals. Her director’s debut “Karoy” (2007) participated in the Venice IFF and “Spirit of Fire” IFF in Khanty-Mansiysk, where it also received a prize for best camerawork. Her filmography includes “My Dear Children...” (2009), “Losing Innocence in Alma-Ata” (2011), “Nagima” (2013), “Bopem” (2015), “Sveta” (2017), etc.