A young man aged about twenty chooses a beautiful woman to make love to her for money. It is not really his style and a couple of hours later he is even more lonely than he was before… He is probably dreaming of something very different from what he does. The title says it all. Shot in a slow and realistic style, entirely in the line of modern Kazakh cinema. —IFFR
Nariman Turebayev (b. 1970, Kazakhstan) made student films at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and at the Kazakhstan Arts Academy before becoming a screenwriter and assistant on Ardak Amirkulov´s 1977. Turebayev´s short film Romantika (2000) won the novelty and style prize at the Almaty student film festival. In 2001, he served as assistant director on Darezhan Omirbayev´s The Road, and directed the sardonic short, Antiromantika, which screened at Cannes and won the Grand Prix at the Angers Film Festival. —KVIFF