Sunflower

Kazakhstan

DISCOVERIES SECTION

Director: Elya Gilman
Year: 2018
Duration: 98′
Language: VOSE
Genre: Drama

Amir is a young teenager who spends his life immersed in the world of online games. With an absent mother, a father who dedicates his life to growing sunflowers and teachers who are more interested in his progenitor than in him, Amir is caught in the limbo between reality and fiction. When he no longer manages to tie that Gordian knot, he decides to face the world around him, rifle in hand.

Elya Gilman is a young Kazakh director, actress, producer and screenwriter. She made her debut in 2004 with the short film Imago and in 2005 she made her television debut directing an episode of the series Zero. Since then she has combined the two media indiscriminately. In 2015 she produced and directed her own series: 25th Kilometers, having previously directed as a filmmaker Kare (2004), Wind Blow (2005), Little Angel (2007), Ikar (2008), Surprise (2011), Astana, My Heart (2011) and Classmates (2012).


SCREENING

November 2020
Available online on FILMIN