Ласточка

On a remote horse farm in the Kazakh steppe, Karlygash and her husband Ilyas live within a fragile routine marked by unspoken tensions. The arrival of a French traveler unsettles their life, bringing hidden desires and uncertainties to the surface. 
Situated within the contemporary landscape of Central Asian cinema, Longer Than a Day and Dad Croaked on Saturday turn decisively away from allegory toward the immediacy of lived experience. Their focus lies in the textures of relation — domestic, emotional, temporal — where meaning arises not through narrative resolution but through observation and duration. The female figure is no longer an emblem of change but the site where cinema registers interior life as a political form: embodied, self-aware, and resistant to abstraction. (Malika Mukhamejan)