Celebrated shorts filmmaker Zhannat Alshanova's impressively controlled debut deftly navigates the treacherous currents of a Kazakh teenager's passage into adulthood. Given that the few Central Asian ...
Clattering unenthusiastically up a hotel stairwell, 17-year-old Mila (a superb Tamiris Zhangazinova) gives off an air of world-weariness. Some of it is earned - as we will quickly find out, this is ...