Winner
28. Best Director of a Foreign Language Feature Film
The Crying Steppe
Marina Kunarova
The Crying Steppe is based on true events that befell the indigenous population of Kazakhstan during the 1920s and 1930s, when 8.5 million people died from hunger during the Great Famine, as a result of Soviet repression. The film tells the story of an eagle hunter named Turar and his wife Nuria who overcome blind fear of death and despair in an attempt to save their desperate family and village inhabitants from dying of hunger during the tragic and heartbreaking events occurring in the Kazakh Steppe, which eventually forced 1.5 million people to leave their native homeland.
All Nominees were as follows:
8 Don 75 Fakta Ichchashakti Havi
Sushrut Bhagwat
Invisible
Jeong Hee Jun
Lifelines
Fabienne Godet
The Crying Steppe
Marina Kunarova
The Lost Memory of the Loess Land
Xiaopeng QIN
Thank you to everyone that entered this festival, you have been wonderful competitors and we wish you every success with your projects!
From all of the festival team.
