Zhetiruov Zhangabek. Akkyz.// Happy Poffday. 15th Tallinn Black nights film festival. 2011

Zhanabek Zhetiru (b. 1958) - kazakh films director, screenwriter and film producer. In 1986 he graduated from the philological faculty of the Kazakh State University. From 1988 through 1990 he worked at Kazakh Film studios as an assistant of film director. In 1993 he finished the Higher Courses of Script writers and film directors (HCSD) in Moscow. Nowadays, he is working as a documentary film director in Almaty. He is author and director more than 35 documetnary screens. “Notes by trackman” (2006) is his first full-length movie. Zhanibek Zhetyru is also a member of the Union of Cinemotographers in Republic of Kazakhstan.

Filmograafia/Filmography: Notes by trackman (2006), Akkyz (2011)

The film pictures the ancient Kazakh mythological representation of the World’s creation. There’s a legend from that mythology, telling that God - before creating anything alive - created Sacred White Swan. And that life on Earth comes from the egg of that Sacred Bird.

Film’s story happens in the current time. Despite the fact that 9-year old girl named Aruzhan - who lives on the sea’s coast - doesn’t know a thing about the ancient legend she saves the lives of little birds, intuitively repeating what Sacred White Bird did.

* Akkyz means White Girl in Kazakh.

Zhetiruov Zhangabek. Akkyz.// Happy Poffday. 15th Tallinn Black nights film festival. 2011

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