XI Forum of the young cinema Umut-2024: The Last Night in Korea / Special screening

"The Last Night in Korea" - A short film by CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy of the Busan IFF-2023

Logline : In a foreign land, a Kyrgyz illegal migrant discovers his father's passing away.

International production group:  

Original scriptwriter: Samara Sagynbaeva

Scriptwriters: Khozy Rizal, Mohamad W. Ali, Saman Hosseinpuor, Samara Sagynbaeva

Directing: Khozy Rizal (Indonesia), Mohamad W. Ali (Syria), Saman Hosseinpuor (Iran), Samara Sagynbaeva (Kyrgyzstan)

Cinematography: Becky Baihui Chen, Ejaz Mehedi, Kongkea Vann, Phan Linh Dan Nguyen 

Producing: Aigerim Satybaldy

Production Design: Ni Zhengrong

Sound: Uttam Neupane

Editing: Harin Paesongthai

Starring: Ilimbek Kalmuratov

Samara Sagynbaeva

Samara Sagynbaeva is a director and producer from Kyrgyzstan, focusing on topics that reflect social and women's problems in Central Asia.

Samara studied an intensive directing course at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in the Czech Republic.

While working in journalism, her debut short documentary The Heir (2016) won an award Best Film by choice of CIS film critics at the Umut Forum and her first short fiction film The Swing (2019) participated in more than 40 festivals around the world and won several awards. Samara was an associate producer of the film The Road to Eden (2020) directed by the well-known filmmakers Dastan Japar and Bakyt Mukul, which premiered at Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival.

Samara’s upcoming documentary film “Panic Button”which is supported by the Czech Film Fund, Current Time, Prague Civil Society and other funds is in the late production stage. With this project Samara participated in the CineDOC-Tbilisi Mentorship Program. (2023)

MediaHub (KG) and Pandistan (CZ) are co-producing the project. 

Samara has participated and won the "Promising Filmmaker Award" of CHANEL x BIFF Asian Film Academy.