THE LATE WIND
Genre
Drama
Running time
23 minutes
Year
2021
Language
Kazakh
Subtitle
English
Country
Kazakhstan
Director
Shugyla Serzhan
Bio
Producer
Aigerim Satybaldy
Cast
Tolganay Talgat, Kuantay Abdimadi
Scriptwriter
Shugyla Serzhan
A young Kazakh woman discovers she is pregnant and is preparing for the event she knows will change her life. Then her world turns upside down when her boyfriend suddenly disappears, leaving her alone and uncertain about her future as a mother. She searches for him desperately while the city around her is also fracturing into chaos with protests erupting everywhere around her. Perhaps she can’t do anything but wait for her partner’s return, hoping for a brighter future.
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