BEDOUIN

Competition

“Worrying about you is my life.” Rita is prepared to make any sacrifice if it will help her daughter conquer leukaemia. Serving as a surrogate mother far from home, she relies on a webcam and mobile phone to maintain virtual contact with a child who bears her illness with courage and dignity. As Rita watches her daughter’s condition deteriorate, she is drawn ever deeper into the whirlpool of a crime she opposes with considerable tenacity. But the physical distance between mother and daughter is causing the woman to increasingly question the point of her actions. In Igor Voloshin’s cross-genre film the bedouin metaphor reflects not only the protagonists’ nomadic lives but equally a spiritual odyssey that re-assesses concepts of home and belonging. Life and death, mortality and eternity – the contrasts meet (and sometimes clash) on multiple planes, while tense, raw images of urban life and deprivation bring to light the ambivalent nature of the figures and their conflicts.
BEDUIN / BEDUINE
RUS 2011 / 100 min
Director: Igor Voloshin
  • Screenplay: Igor Voloshin
  • Cinematographer: Aleksey Rodionov
  • Editor: Tatyana Kuzmicheva
  • Music: Gingger Shankar
  • Cast: Olga Simonova,Mikhail Evlanov,Serafima Migay,Remigiyus Sabulis,Dorzhi Galsanov
  • Producer: Aleksandr Orlov,Igor Voloshin
  • Production Company: Bulldozer Films - Russia
“Worrying about you is my life.” Rita is prepared to make any sacrifice if it will help her daughter conquer leukaemia. Serving as a surrogate mother far from home, she relies on a webcam and mobile phone to maintain virtual contact with a child who bears her illness with courage and dignity. As Rita watches her daughter’s condition deteriorate, she is drawn ever deeper into the whirlpool of a crime she opposes with considerable tenacity. But the physical distance between mother and daughter is causing the woman to increasingly question the point of her actions. In Igor Voloshin’s cross-genre film the bedouin metaphor reflects not only the protagonists’ nomadic lives but equally a spiritual odyssey that re-assesses concepts of home and belonging. Life and death, mortality and eternity – the contrasts meet (and sometimes clash) on multiple planes, while tense, raw images of urban life and deprivation bring to light the ambivalent nature of the figures and their conflicts.
  • Screenplay: Igor Voloshin
  • Cinematographer: Aleksey Rodionov
  • Editor: Tatyana Kuzmicheva
  • Music: Gingger Shankar
  • Cast: Olga Simonova,Mikhail Evlanov,Serafima Migay,Remigiyus Sabulis,Dorzhi Galsanov
  • Producer: Aleksandr Orlov,Igor Voloshin
  • Production Company: Bulldozer Films - Russia