God’s gift

Asel Zhuraeva / Kyrgyzstan

Screening

Cinemes Girona

05-11-2023 / 16:00 h.

Film Information

Year: 2023

Duration: 75'

Language: VOSE

Genre: Comedy

Synopsis

An elderly childless couple with poor health live in a small village where barely anything ever happens when some unknown people leave a six-month-old baby at their front door. In the beginning, Initially, the old couple wants to hand over the child to the authorities, but having heard that young children could be being sold for trafficking with their organs, they decide to keep him. Caring for a baby turns the lives of older people in a completely different direction, and they end up finding a renewed interest.

Director

Asel Zhuraeva graduated from the Kyrgyz State Institute of Arts in 2010. She also coursed in the Film school of RustamIbragimbekov (Kiev, Ukraine, 2013) and afterwards she started lecturing at AUCA (2017 to 2019). She is the director at the Tazar Cinema Company and the head of Creative Women of Asia Foundation since 2010.