AlmaU continues to support the development of the cinematography industry. For the third year he has been cooperating with the international festival “Baikonur”. This year, the university awarded a cash prize in the amount of 500,000 tenge. The special prize of the jury of the national competition went to the film “Run, Adema, run”.
“AlmaU highlights Fariza Tanai’s documentary “Run, Adema, Run” as a talented work in which such a subtle and unyielding aesthetic element as reality becomes the reason for creating a cinematic metaphor – the hope for supernatural guardianship, for the rest of healing invulnerability, which already lurks in advance in a silent plea for it,” she noted director, screenwriter, PhD, Associate Professor at the AlmaU School of Media and Cinema Aybarsha Bozheeva.
18 films from six countries participated in the competition of feature and documentary short films, 26 in the national one. The film directed by Fariza Tanai is based on a personal story. The story of her little daughter made a special impression on the jury.
“After learning about my daughter’s diagnosis, I went through different stages of acceptance, and that stage of Adema’s rehabilitation in Kyzylorda, where he was filmed. The film was difficult for me. I devoted so many years to the practice and theory of directing, and when it was my time to act, I found myself tied to my daughter 24 by 7 and to constant rehabilitation. What about me? What about my creativity? All these questions were bothering me. Now I already understand that the film “Run, Adema, run” turned out to be my lifeline, which pulled me out of that depression, and helped me to plunge back into the process of filming, editing,” F. said.Tanai.
“This is a socially significant picture with a very serious cinematic metaphorical language. Baikonur is a very serious platform in the cinema industry, specifically for youth. Because it was born in 2014. It grows every year. It started as a student competition, now it has grown to an international festival.”
Baikonur is the first international short film festival in Kazakhstan. For eight years now, he has been supporting young filmmakers and discovering new names not only in Kazakhstan, but also in dozens of countries near and far abroad.
Fariza Tanai: “I thank the Baikonur Film Festival for this venue, for the opportunity to show my film! Thanks to Baikonur, the film found its audience. I am also extremely happy to receive a monetary certificate from AlmaU University. So my story was able to touch the hearts of the audience. Since the film was evaluated and selected by the professional teaching staff of AlmaU University, the value of recognition becomes higher.”