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Kazakh Scary Tales
Adilkhan Yerzhanov
- 2025
- Republic of Kazakhstan
- Fantasy
- 2h00mn
- Original version with English subtitles
- Color
European premiere
With a young mediumnic woman as a sidekick, an incorruptible detective is confronted with terrifying supernatural cases in the village of Karatas. Though he’s pressured into closing these cases, he persists in trying to understand.
When Adilkhan Yerzhanov announces a TV series of terrifying Kazakh stories, we can be pretty sure he won’t do it like anyone else. From the initial images, we recognize his music: an absurd bureaucracy, desolate steppes, nonsensical humor. Without forgetting to scare us, through a love for the genre’s classics and tales from his homeland. He installs a very personal atmosphere, evocative less of the X-Files than a Kazakh Twin Peaks. You’ll love following this Sherlock of the supernatural and his sidekick. An already cult series.
Screenings
10/09 • 18h15 • Screen 500
In the director's presence
Because of the current social movement, we are unfortunately forced to cancel this screening
13/09 • 19h15 • Screen 300
In the director's presence
Credits
- With : Dinara Baktybayeva, Daniyar Alshinov, Sanzhar Madi...
- Screenplay : Adilkhan Yerzhanov
- Editing : Alisher Kagarmanov
- Photography : Yerkinbek Ptraliyev
- Music by : Dóreki!
- Production : Timur Bairov, Alisher Utev
