Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Nagima

Zhanna ISSABAYEVA 2013 Kazakhstan Fiction color 87min Russian Blu-ray
Nagima is an ugly, illiterate and uncommunicative graduate of the orphan home. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her "orphanage" girlfriend, pregnant sister Anya. Anya once met a guy and wanted to get married, but it did not work out. Anya dies in birth, and Nagima comes to the orphanage in order to adopt Anya's child. Her request was refused because she does not have a home, a husband and a permanent job.

Director

Zhanna ISSABAYEVA

Nagima is an ugly, illiterate and uncommunicative graduate of the orphan home. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her "orphanage" girlfriend, pregnant sister Anya. Anya once met a guy and wanted to get married, but it did not work out. Anya dies in birth, and Nagima comes to the orphanage in order to adopt Anya's child. Her request was refused because she does not have a home, a husband and a permanent job.

Director's Statement ▾

Zhanna ISSABAYEVA
  • 2009 My Dear Children
  • 2011 Losing Innocence in Alma-Ata
  • 2013《哈薩克的孤兒》Nagima

Director & Scriptwriter :Zhanna ISSABAYEVA
Producer : Zhanna ISSABAYEVA
Cast : Dina TUKUBAYEVA, Galina PYANOVA, Mariya NEZHENTSEVA
Director of Photography:Sayat ZHANGAZINOV
Editing: Azamat ALTYBASOV
Sound Director :Adyl MEREKENOV

Zhanna ISSABAYEVA
issabayeva@mail.ru