International Panorama · 46th Edition
Cotton
Pakhta
Director
Rashid Malikov
Country
Uzbekistan
Runtime
1 h 19 min
Language
Uzbek
Premiere
World Premiere
Synopsis
2015, a remote village in a remote region of Uzbekistan. Gulchehra earns her living by combing cotton wool. It is hard work, but she has little choice: she needs to support herself and her elderly mother-in-law. Her husband is working in another country and Gulchehra does not realise that he is not coming back. After the death of her mother-in-law, Gulchehra is left alone in a hostile world, where morals and hypocritical morality reign supreme.
Cast
Khurshida Arabshoyeva, Ravshan Ibragimov
Screenplay
Rashid Malikov, Yan Milenin
Producers
Dmitry Vorobyov
About the Director
He was born on July 3, 1958, in Moscow. He is a film director, screenwriter, and filmmaker, a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, and the Guild of Film Directors of Russia, and a Commander of the Order of DUSTLIK (Uzbekistan). Since 2023, he has been leading the Directing Workshop at the Tashkent Branch of VGIK.
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