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ALA KACHUU - Take and Run

Director

Maria Brendle

Location

Switzerland

Runtime

38 minutes 26 seconds

Genre

Short

Synopsis

Walter Ordway Best of Fest (juried) Narrative Short (less than 40 min)

Sezim (19) wants to fulfil her dream of studying in the Kyrgyz capital when she gets kidnapped by a group of young men and taken to the hinterland. There she’s forced to marry a stranger. If she refuses the marriage, she is threatened with social stigmatization and exclusion. Torn between her desire for freedom and the constraints of Kyrgyz culture, Sezim desperately seeks for a way out.

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