Asiya Baygozhina

The film is about essential things, about what excites everyone, but this excitement visits us either in early youth or in old age.

Student demonstrations of 1986 in Almaty and the ensuing crackdown and repression, told through a series of interviews. During the film, quotations from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude are interspersed. The two young female film directors showed great courage in being able to make the film.

The film is about essential things, about what excites everyone, but this excitement visits us either in early youth or in old age.

Student demonstrations of 1986 in Almaty and the ensuing crackdown and repression, told through a series of interviews. During the film, quotations from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude are interspersed. The two young female film directors showed great courage in being able to make the film.