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Introduced by Sultan Usavaliev

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Together with the other children, Kalyk arrives at his home camp on the mountain pasture to spend the summer holidays with his parents. His father Bakaj, the elder of the camp, decides not to send Kalyk back to boarding school so that the boy can support him and his mother in their older years. After a family conflict explodes into violence, Kalyk escapes from his parents to spend another school year in the city. The majestically beautiful Kyrgyz mountain pastures, captured seemingly effortlessly in black and white widescreen, become the setting for a collision between tradition and progress, centered on the young generation's will to emancipate themselves. (NF)

Sultan Usuvaliev is a film scholar and independent filmmaker, candidate of art criticism, instructor at the TV, Film and Media Arts Department of American University in Central Asia. His research interests include the history of Kyrgyz cinema, contemporary film criticism and documentary filmmaking.