Sergei Dvortsevoy

Ayka just gave birth. She can't afford to raise a child. She has no job, debts to be paid, not even a room of her own. But there is no way to suppress her natural instincts. (71st Festival de Cannes)

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. (filmlinc.com)

An elderly blind man lives in a small apartment in suburban Moscow, with only his white cat to keep him company as he weaves baskets to give strangers on the street. (homevideo.icarusfilms.com)

The highway of the title refers to a 2,000 mile stretch of dirt road in remote Kazakhstan. (KG)

Bread Day unflinchingly depicts a community of pensioners living in near isolation outside of St. Petersberg as it enacts the weekly ritual of bringing a delivery of bread--left at a rail junction two hours away--into the village for distribution.

Sergey Dvortsevoy makes his international debut with this astonishingly intimate portrait of a nomadic family on the Kazakh plains.