AYKA

AYKA, 2018
Kazakhstan | DCP, Color, 100' | Russian, Kirghiz
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Cast: Samal Yeslyamova, Aleksandr Zlatopolskiy

Ten years after being awarded the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes for his previous film Tulpan, Sergei Dvortsevoy comes back with a story about 25-year-old Ayka’s struggle to survive. Immediately after giving birth in a hospital in Moscow, Ayka escapes. Over the course of a week, she searches for a job while ignoring her postpartum condition and trying to hide the fact that she has just given birth. But no one wants to give a job to this woman who has no work permit. Ayka is a drama which, from the very first scene, makes the viewers question their prejudices while displaying h