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Tulpan Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Sergey Dvortsevoy, Country: Germany/Kazakhstan/Poland/Russia/Switzerland, Release: 2008, Runtime: 100 Celebrated Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy won the Prix Un Certain Regard for this, his first dramatic feature — an astonishing ethnographic drama-cum-wildlife movie. As comic as it is awe-inspiring, Tulpan is set in the vast emptiness of southern Kazakhstan’s Hunger Steppe. Having completed his military service, a young nomad named Asa returns home to his brother-in-law’s yurt with hopes of becoming a shepherd. But is such a life any longer possible in the modern world? First, Asa must win the affections of his beautiful neighbor, Tulpan. Dvortsevoy gives us the bleak beauty of the steppe’s windswept landscape: the endless sky, the camel stampedes, the raucous behavior of a reggae-loving teamster, and one of the most remarkable animal birth scenes ever captured on film. Preceded by Deweneti: An enterprising Dakar street orphan raises money for a special seasonal communiqué. Dyana Gaye, France, 2007; 15m. Sergei Dvortsevoy b. 1962, Chimkent, Kazakhstan 2004 In the Dark 1999 Highway 1998 Bread Day

Buy Tickets Thu Oct 9: 9:15 Sat Oct 11: 6 ***Please note the time change for the Thursday, Oct 9 screening. The film will start at 9:15pm instead of 9pm.***