Oct 8 – Tulpan

A comedic, cross-cultural fairy tale from acclaimed Russian documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy: Asa returns from a stint in the Russian Navy to his barren homeland in Kazakhstan, where he shares a yurt with his sister’s family. While trying to establish a life of his own on the dusty, windy steppes, Asa sets his sights on the only eligible girl in the region. But Tulpan (the name means ‘tulip’ in Kazakh) has other ideas. Asa’s quest forms an arc of hope against the harsh land.

Russian director Sergei Dvortsevoy’s funny, fascinating, utterly unclassifiable film Tulpan is ethnographic filmmaking without the preaching. – Globe and Mail

Tulpan is an amazing film. It shows such an unfamiliar world, it might as well be Mars. – Rober Ebert

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