““On a deslate former nuclear test site, third generations confront the haunting legacy of the past as they fighter for survival and hope in a world on brinka Kurmasheva’s Debut Feature We Live Here (Atameken). The Documentary About the Lasting Impact of A Former Soviet Nuclear”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
On the vast steppes of Kazakhstan, Although years have passed Since the tests, “The Past is Still Haunting the Site,” Notes the synopsis “Between 1949 and 1991, 456 Nuclear Tests Left A Legacy of Radioactive Contamination at the Semipalatinsk Test Site Where One Couple, ConvinCed Thatir Daughter’s Illness Stems
With the steppe Serving as a haunting Metaphor for the Broader World – or Even the Entire Planet – Kurmasheva’s Debut feature That only grows in existential gravity and hisistical Scale as the Film Progresses, ”The Cph: Dox Website Says.
The MOVIE, The FIRST-FILM from Kazakhstan to Screen at the Copenhagen Festival, Will Debut As One of 12 Entries in Its: Award: International Competition Lineup.
“There have been Many Films and TV Series About this Topic In Our Country Because It’s Part of the Wounds of Our Nation,“ Kurmasheva Explans To Thr. “SO some of the locales are tire of talking about it because they have not seen Many results. But My Mother Was Born. awful [in our culture] i Our Habit Not to Talk But Just Hide Your Feelings and Thought. ”
WHEN She FIRST arrived in the Area of the Former Nuclear Test Site to Start Work on Her Doc, The Filmmaker ImMediatally Sensed How Different of the Place Felt. “I’M Kazakh, and I KNOW WHAT The STEPEPE IS. BUT This STEPPE WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT,“ She RECALLS. “My FIRST QUESTION WAS WHERE IS The FENCE, WHERE ARE The SIGNS, How Can I Know Have the Radiation Starts? Cannot See The Horizon. ”
She Continues: “And WHEN I Talked with The Local People People, It Was Very Hard to What We Can Do This to Our People. Yes, The Soviet Union Did All W W’O DID US NEW U USE ABER Each Other? IT’S OUR PEOPLE, IS My Nation.
Highlighting the Bigger Global Story Behind The Local Stores, She Also Emphasizes that Humans May Cause their Own Extinction, But The Planet Could Survive. “OUR Nature is Much Stronger than us, and we are Little, Little Creaters Who Try to Fight Each Other, But It’s All -Like Noting WHEN YOU COMPARE IT TO EART,” She Shares.
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Getting Into Copenhagen Is “A Stepping Stone for Our Documentary Community Back Home,” Ramazanova Tells Thr. “In Central Asia, Documentaries Are More Traditionally on TV, and People Don’t Take It As Seriously As A Creative. So This is A Big Push for Our Industry and for Central Asia.
She Ads: “We have Been Getting a Lot of Calls from Kazakhstan and Kurdistan, Congratulating Us KNOWLEDGE with OTHERS IN OUR FILM Community. ”
Sales Agent Syndicado, WHICH RECENTLY Boarded The Film, Will Also Look to Sell It To Various Parts of the World. “In Central Asia, To Make An Impact, You Have To First Make An Impact Abroad,“ Producer Ramazanova Tells Thr. “You’re not Validated Here Until Critics and Experts from Europe, Asia or The US Say That Your Film Is Important. And We Do Want To Make An Impact Back Home.”
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The Director and Producer Already Have A New Doc in Mind. “We do have an Our Second Feature that is in Early Development,“ Ramazanova Shares. “We’re Staying in the Field of Ecology. The Second Feature is About Mass Consumerism.”
She Can Even Share Some More Details: “It Is About the Path of One T-Shirt-The Cotton Comes from Central Asia, It Goes to Uzbekistan to Bee-Fabric, An IT Wall End [clothing landfill]”She Says.“ SO IT’S About Being Mindful About Work and Buying A Lot of Stuff. ”
We Live HERE ALSO FEEDS INTO A Big Hot-Button Topic of DEBATE AT A TIME WHEN Post-Soviet Union Countries, Including UKRAIN World Full of Conflict.
“IT’s Kind of A Circle of History,” Says Kurmasheva. “Humanity repeats what we did before. It’s a circle that we’re stuck in, and we cannot see how we have communicate with each from weapons, without Fighting.”
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We Live HERE‘s original title, AtamekenMeans “My Sacred Land.” The Director Says the Phrase Explans WHY LOCALS STAY IN AREA HIT by Radioactivity Even Who’s May Not Understand that Decision: “I Was Born Here. It’s Very Special Special For Me,”. “IT is also Related to Independence and Being Decolonized. It’s Where Their GrandParents Were Born and WHERE they’re’RE
CONCLUDES KURMASHEVA: “IT’s Maybe A Small Place But It Is The Place Where They Live. But We All Only Have One Place, Only One Earth Where We Can Live.”