AYKA / АЙКА

RUSSIA – GERMANY – POLAND – CHINA – KAZAKHSTAN
2018, 100 MIN.
Director Sergey Dvortsevoy
Script Sergey Dvortsevoy, Gennady Ostrovsky
Camera Jolanta Dylewska
Design Olga Yurasova, Maria Turskaya, Alexei Filimonov
Cast: Samal Yeslyamova, Zhipara Abdilaeva, David Alaverdyan, Nurzhamal Mamadalieva, Nurzhan Kunnozarova, Sergey Mazur, Azamat Satimbaev, Askhat Kuchencherekov, Larisa Firsova, Polina Severnaya
Producers Sergey Dvortsevoy, Thanassis Karathanos, Anna Wydra, Martin Hampel, Gulnara Sarsenova, Li Zhu, Michel Merkt
Production ARTE, Eurasia Film Production, Eurimages, Juben Pictures, Kinodvor, Otter Films, Pallas Film

Ayka just gave birth. She can’t afford to raise a child. She has no job, debts to be paid, not even a room of her own. But there is no way to suppress her natural instincts.

★★ Prize for Best Actress at the Cannes IFF (Samal Yeslyamova)
★★ Asian Film Award for Best Actress (Samal Yeslyamova)
★★ Main Prize for Best Film, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cottbus IFF
★★ Grand Prize at the Tokyo FILMeX

SERGEY DVORTSEVOY

Director, scriptwriter, producer. Born in 1962 in Chimkent, USSR. In 1982 finished the aviation college in Krivoy Rog, in 1988 graduated from the Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute. In 1990 he began his studies at the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (class of non-live-action directing of L.Gurevich and S.Zelikin). In the course of his studies he shot the shorts “Paradise” and “Bread Day”, which won several dozens of Grand Prix at international film festivals. Having finished the courses he directed the documentaries “Highway” (Nika Award), “In the Dark” and his first feature “Tulpan” which won the main prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes IFF and numerous awards at other festivals. “Ayka” is his second feature.