AWARDS: Special Mention “National Cinema Museum” 2024 and Special Mention “Le Giornate della Luce” for the best photography 2024
INSTITUTE: Kyrgyzstan Turkey Manas University
YEAR: 2023
LANGUAGE: Kyrgyz
SYNOPSIS: A boy decides to confess his love for his classmate on the day of the play in an abandoned old club. She is Juliet to him, and he wants to be her Romeo.
PROFILE: Tynystan Тemirzhan was born on February 2, 1998, into a family of theater artists. He graduated from the Kyrgyz-Turkish University “Manas”, Radio-Television and Cinema Art department. His debut short film Romeo was presented for the first time in 2023 at the 11th Film Festival “Kyrgyzstan – the Land of Short Films” of the CIS countries, the Baltics, and Georgia, where he received the award as Best Director. In 2023, he made his second short film, Bulak. Besides his primary activities, Tynystan has realized more than 10 experimental fiction and documentary works, which were produced as part of the experimental cinema movement “Tartaly” a name that translated from Kyrgyz means “let’s shoot”.
