Synopsis
While searching for the family treasure, once hidden by his great-grandfather under a cherry tree in his garden, six-year-old Sholpan finds, instead of diamonds, a magic mirror in which the nostalgia of the distant past and the mysterious future unite in a beautiful present, to the music of a Kazakh national shamanic instrument, the kobyz.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (3)
Full credits (15)
- Screenwriter : Victoria Yakubov
- Director of Photography : Iskander Narymbetov
- Music Composer : Maksat Medeubek
- Assistant directors : Erke Bekturov, Flora Zaghini
- Editor : Hervé Schneid
- Sound Recordist : Nicolas Becker
- Costume designer : Victoria Yakubov
- Line Producers : Aygul Izmagambetova, Hervé Schneid
- Production Manager : Hervé Schneid
- Sound Editor : Sélim Azzazi
- Continuity supervisor : Hervé Schneid
- Production Designer : Gennadiy Grafeev
- Special Effects : Alain Carsoux
- Visual effects : Élie Akoka
- Sound Mixer : Vincent Arnardi
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Fairy tale, Legend
- Themes : Childhood, Family, Exile, Exodus
- Production language : Kazakh
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2015
- Runtime : 13 min 15 seconds
- Production formats : HD 2K
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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