Aralkum
A desert landscape, as if from another planet. A few lonely, rusty shipwrecks.
Low desert scrub grows around them to hold the sand together during the merciless storms.
Aralkum, the Aral Desert, is the bare seabed, the last thing left of the Aral Sea.By weaving together different cinematic textures, the short film Aralkum re-imagines the dried-up Aral Sea, allowing an old fisherman to set sail one last time.
crew
with Uralbay Utegenov
producer, director, editor: Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
producer: Fozil Yunusov
cinematographer: Sadriddin Shakhabiddinov
sound recordist: Fazliddin Musurmonov
music: Giovanni Berg
narrator: Kallibek Nagmetov
sounddesign: Daniel Asadi Faezi
re-recording mixer, sounddesign: Andrew Mottl
color grading: Nicholas Coleman – OASYS Digital
title design: Paul Rutrecht
festivals
awards:
53. VISIONS DU RÉEL, Switzerland - JURY PRIZE Best Shotfilm
15. BELDOCS, Belgrade Documentary Festival, Serbia - Jury Special Mention
45. DRAMA ISFF, Greece - Jury Special Award
12. Int. Shortfilmfestival Cyprus - Best Documentary Film
15. Imagine Science Festival New York, USA - Jury Special Mention
qualified for Academy Awards Best Documentary Short
nominated for the DocAlliance Award
26. Ji.hlava Documentary Festival, Czech Republi nominated for Silver Eyes Shorts Award (Institute of Documentary Film)
festivals:
53. VISIONS DU RÉEL, Switzerland,
15. BELDOCS, Belgrade Documentary Festival, Serbia
25. VIDEOEX Zürich, Switzerland
21. DOKUFEST Prizren, Kosovo
35. MONTENEGRO FILMFESTIVAL Herceg Novi
45. DRAMA ISFF, Greece
18. CAMDEN IFF, USA
20. TIRANA IFF, Albania
17. UNDERDOX, Germany
14. DMZ Documentary Festival, South Korea
17. SHORTS Mexico ISFF
17. TACOMA Filmfestival, USA
20. DOCLISBOA, Portugal
15. IMAGINE SCIENCE New York, USA
29. ETIUDA&ANIMA Krakow, Poland
41. UPPSALA Shortfilmfestival, Sweden
04. SAIGON EXPERIMENTAL FILMFESTIVAL, Vietnam
63. FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI, Italy
64. ZINEBI Bilbao, Spain
45. POITIERS Filmfestival, France
41. FILMSCHOOLFEST Munich, Germany
38. INTERFILM Berlin, Germany
05. FRONTERA SUR Festival, Chile
16. KFFK Cologne, Germany
03. LIMA ALTERNA IFF, Peru
23. IZMIR Int. Shortfilm Festival, Turkey
20. LONDON SHORTFILM Festival, UK
03. GUFA, Hong Kong
35. EXGROUND Filmfestival Wiesbaden, Germany
07. WINTER APRICOTS, Macedonia
44. MAX-OPHÜLS-PREIS, Germany
29. KURZFILMWOCHE REGENSBURG, Germany
22/23 UNIVERCINE Nantes, France
05. FIPADOC Biarritz, France
15. GO SHORT @ Movies that Matter, Netherlands
19. ZAGREBDOX, Croatia
20. BOGOSHORTS, Colombia
19. TRUE/FALSE Festival Missouri, USA
61. ANN ARBOR Filmfestival, USA
24. KUK Kurzfilmtage Schweinfurt, Germany