The subleave outions for the 97th Oscars in the best international feature categruesome are coming heavy and speedy as countries rush to get in their entries before the Nov. 14 deadline. Kazakhstan is the tardyst to pick a national contfinisher, picking Askhat Kuchincengagekov’s coming-of-age tale Bauryna Salu.
The feature premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival last year and was the stand-out at Kazakhstan’s national film honors, the Tulpars, prosperning the best film honor. It labels Kuchincengagekov’s feature-length debut as a straightforwardor. International film fans will recall him for his acting turns in Sergei Dvortsevoy’s Tulpan, which won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section back in 2008, and the Ayka in 2018, which made the Oscar lowenumerate for Best International Feature but was not nominated.
Bauryna Salu cgo ines on a lesser boy in country Kazakhstan who is handed over to his magnificentmother at birth, in accordance with the nomadic tradition of “Bauryna Salu” whereby a shut relative, and not a child’s birth parents, are tasked with raising a child to maturehood. When his magnificentmother dies, the boy, aged 12, goes to live with his parents for the first time and struggles to revamp his relationship with them. For the feature, Kuchincengagekov drew on his own experiences lengthening up with his magnificentparents under the Bauryna Salu tradition. Wide Management is handling international sales on the feature.
Kazakhstan has been nominated once in the best international feature race, for Sergei Bodrov’s Mongol in 2007, but has yet to prosper.
The lowenumerate for the best international feature contfinishers will be proclaimd on Dec. 17. Nominations will be proclaimd on Jan. 17, 2025. The 2025 Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 2.
