The Fly Up

Ergii

Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan

2002

10 Min

Color

Kyrgyz

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CAST Assol Abdullina, Gapar Akilbekov, Makambet Toktobayev, Tynar Abdrazaeva

Berlinale (Competition), São Paulo, Mar del Plata

Synopsis

One day in the life of a boy who wishes he could make an ancestral human dream come true and fly. With a machine he has made himself and with the strength of his own muscles, he intends to overcome the force of gravity. —São Paulo International Film Festival

Director

Marat Sarulu

Born 1957 in Kyrgyzstan. Graduated in philology from the Kyrgyz National University in Bishkek. Afterwards he studied at the Moscow Film Academy. Sarulu works as a director and writer; among others he wrote the script for the successful film The Adopted Son (Aktan Abdykalykov, 1998). His short film The Fly Up (2002) has been screened at several international film festivals. Molenie o Prechistoj ptitse/Praying for the Virgin Bird (1989, short), In Spe (1993), Mandala (1998, short doc), Ergy/The Fly Up (2001, short), Altyn Kyrghol/My Brother Silk Road (2001), Burnaja reka, bezmiateznoje more/The Rough River, the Placid Sea (2004), Pesn’ yuzhnih morei/Song from the Southern Seas (2008). —Split Film Festival