"The Scent of Wormwood" won Best Director Award at the Crystal Baby Seal IFF 

Dates & place of this festival: 12-17.05.2023, Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, Russia

Director: Aibek Daiyrbekov, Kyrgyzstan, 2022, 91min.

Synopsis. Asan’s family moves to a quiet rural village, where children play by lighting a fire under a rock and roasting bird eggs using twigs and snack on them. Asan soon befriends the vill.

"Scent Of Wormwood": World premiere was in Busan