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The story centers on Aidai, an old Kazakh Baksy who can heal people, find their souls and tell them where their stolen cattle has been hidden. She has been living on the land of a rich businessman, Batyr, for years because that is the place she gets her strength to heal from. When the mafia colludes with local authorities to build a gas station and motel over where her house stands, Aidai is pushed out of her home and mysteriously disappears. A year later after the construction takes place, someone burns down the property. The mafia accuses Batyr, the landowner, of the incident and makes him pay for the damages. When Batyr refuses to submit, they kidnap his precious young son whom Aidai once helped and took care of. Now, Batyr must find Aidai, because only she will be able to help him find his soniK
Writer/Director Guka Omarova was born in 1968 in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan. She graduated with a degree in television journalism at the University of the Republic of Kazakhstan and went to the documentary film program at the Institute of Cinema and Theater in Almaty.
Omarova's first feature Schizo(2004) won numerous prizes that included Best Actor at Tokyo Film Festival and Morocco Film Festival, Fibresci International Film Critics Award at Haifa (Isreal) Film Festival, Best Film by a Female Director at Copenhagen Film Festival, and the Grand Prize at Tallinn (Estonia) International Film Festival. Schizo premiered at Cannes International Film Festival as part of Un Certain Regard and played numerous festivals including Toronto International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, and Munich Film Festival just to name a few.
In addition, she has collaborated with Sergei Bodrov in Mongol (nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008) as the casting director and second unit director. She also wrote SISTERS directed by Sergei Bodrov Jr. that played Venice, Toronto, and Rotterdam.
2004 Schizo
2003 Captain Kat (documentary, short)
1998 That Heart of Mine (documentary, short)
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