Tulpan Articles

2009 Asian Film Awards 2009 Asian Film Award nominations: Jan. 21, 2009 2009 Asian Film Award winners: March 23, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   In Kyoshi Kurosawa's best Asian Film Award winner Tokyo Sonata, a middle-class worker (Teruyuki Kagawa) loses his job (it's outsourced to China), but can't get himself to tell his family about his predicament. Slowly, however, both his [...]

2008 Dubai Film Festival Awards 2008 Dubai Film Festival: Dec. 11-18, 2008   In Lyes Salem's Masquerades, an arrogant man (played by Salem) living with his family in an Algerian village has one dream: to be respected by those around him. The problem is that he has a sister whom everyone believes will end up a spinster. To resolve the issue, the man tells everyone [...]

2008 Asia-Pacific Screen Awards 2008 Asia-Pacific Film Festival: Nov. 2008   Directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy, and written by Dvortsevoy and Gennadi Ostrovsky, Tulpan is set in the steppes of Kazakhstan, where a young man hopes to find himself a wife and settle down as a sheepherder. Times, however, have changed.   Best Feature Film Tulpan Best Animated Feature Film Waltz with Bashir Best Documentary Ggeutnaji [...]

2008 Tokyo Film Festival Awards 2008 Tokyo Film Festival: October 18-26, 2008   Set in the arid steppes of Kazakhstan, Sergei Dvortsevoy's Tulpan chronicles one young man's struggle to prove himself worthy of a wife. In the meantime, he has to cope with his sister's family, a reluctant bride-to-be, sand storms, and illness in the family's sheep herd — all that while listening to "By [...]