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Genre:
Neo-Western Search & Rescue
Country, Year:
Kazakhstan, 2024
Duration:
102 mins
Director:
Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Writer:
Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Language/Subtitles:
Kazakh/Russian/English
Cast:
Anna Starchenko, Berik Aytzhanov
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screenings
23.4.25 18:00
Odeon

Where Hope Is Scarce

Dala Qasqiri (Steppenwolf)

In a war-torn area where a human life doesn't matter much anymore, Tamara searches for her kidnapped son. In doing so, she hires a former police officer whose methods are anything but squeamish. Her search brings her ever deeper into a dreary world of moral abysses, where every means is right to ensure their own survival.

DALA QASQIRI (STEPPENWOLF) from Kazakhstan is somewhere between post-war drama, road movie and neo-western. With a cynical undertone, director Adilkhan Yerzhanov comments on the brutalization of his protagonists to a point where even evil still appears good in a world that has lost all hope — where life only appears as an annoying transition phase to redemptive death. Not a light diet.

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