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NETPAC Award of the 7th Abu Dhabi Film festival goes to Harmony Lessons (24.10-02.11.2013)
The NETPAC Award of the 7th Abu Dhabi Film Festival for the perfect artistic realization of the theme of confrontation of a person with all mechanisms of marginalization in a society goes to the film Harmony Lessons made by young film-director from Kazakhstan - Emir Baigazin.
The NETPAC Award is given at international film festivals designated by NETPAC.
It consists of the NETPAC Certificate giving the name of the Film, the Director, the Festival and the Citation and the Netpac Trophy.
The Jury should pay special attention to new directors. Netpac’s mission is to highlight new talents.
NETPAC Jury: 1. Gulbara Tolomushova, president, Film scholar, author, film critic, Kyrgyzstan 2. Deborah Young, Film writer, editor and programmer, USA 3. Ziad Khuzal, Film critic, Iraq, United Kingdom Harmony Lessons, Kazakhstan, France, Germany (115 min.) from Showcase (screening 27.10.2013) Synopsis. A meticulous and successful 13-year-old science student faces the daily taunts of schoolyard bullies at his village school in the lonely steppes of Kazakhstan. Tired of suffering in silence, he methodically prepares his revenge.
Cast and Crew Director - Emir Baigazin Production Company - The Post Republic Halle, Rohfilm, Arizona Productions, Kazakhfilm Cast - Timur Aidarbekov, Aslan Anarbayev, Mukhtar Andassov, Anelya Adilbekova, Beibitzhan Muslimov, Omar Adilov, Adlet Anarbekov, Daulet Anarbekov, Nursultan Nurbergenov, Nurdaulet Orazymbetov, Erasyl Nurzhakyp, Assan Kirkabakov, Ramazan Sultanbek, Bagila Kobenova
Info about director: Emir Baigazin was born in Kazakhstan in 1984. He studied film and theatre directing at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts. In 2007, at the Asian Film Academy at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, he won the Asian competition with his project Steppe and was selected for hands-on training with directors Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Pen-ek Ratanaruang. He also an alumnus of the 2008 Talent Campus of the Berlin Film Festival.
The Citation of the jury: A great artistic expression of the identity confrontation topic to all mechanisms in the society.
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