

Crickets, It's Your Turn
A diagnosis, not a prescription.
Crickets, It’s Your Turn is a darkly absurd feminist parable in which a young photographer’s private theatre of imagination begins to invade reality. Merey enters a mountain house governed by hierarchy, male solidarity and the logic of the strongest. She follows another logic: beauty, play and creation. Through white-room tableaux, grotesque humour and deliberate ruptures between realism and theatre, an ordinary gathering becomes a study of collective complicity. The danger comes not from a single monster, but from reasonable men who protect one another until violence becomes ceremony.
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- Language
- Kazakh
- feminism
- dark comedy
- satire
- patriarchy
- absurdism
- female photographer
- social critique
- toxic masculinity
- collective complicity
- theatricality
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Premiere55th International Film Festival of India, Goa23 Nov 2024
- Premiere22nd Chennai International Film Festival — World Cinema12 Dec 2024
- Premiere2nd Cinévesture International Film Festival — World Canvas23 Mar 2025
United StatesUS
- PremiereGlasgow Film Festival — UK Premiere4 Mar 2025
BrazilBR
- Premiere48th São Paulo International Film Festival — New Directors Competition27 Oct 2024
EgyptEG
- PremiereEl Gouna Film Festival — Feature Narrative Competition28 Oct 2024
FinlandFI
- PremiereHelsinki International Film Festival — Love & Anarchy22 Sept 2024
NetherlandsNL
- PremiereEastern Neighbours Film Festival — Dutch Premiere8 Nov 2025
SwitzerlandCH
- Premiere77th Locarno Film Festival — World Premiere, Concorso Cineasti del Presente14 Aug 2024
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Crickets, It's Your Turn was released on 23 March 2025.
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