This is What I Remember
AWFF is proud to present its Official Selection of 2023 Asian Academy Award® and Golden Globe submissions for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture - Non-English Language respectively, along with a series of Asian Film Day programs,. exclusive presentations and tribute retrospectives. The Festival aims to promote all films through physical screenings, panels, special events and social media platforms, in order to assist the filmmakers in their campaigns for Award success.
First Screening: November 14th, 2023 @ 3:30PM PT
Second Screening: November 15th, 2023 @ 3PM PT
Where: The Culver Theater
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Genre: Drama
Duration: 105 min
Director: Aktan Arym Kubat
Language(s): Kyrgyz, Arabic
Subtitles: English
Producers: Altynai Koichumanova, Carine Chichkowsky, Yuji Sadai, Denis Vaslin
Director of Photography: Talant Akynbekov
Editor: Evgeniy Krokhmalenko
Principal Cast: Aktan Arym Kubat, Mirlan Abdykalykov, Taalaikan AbazovaYam
Synopsis:
A tiny provincial settlement somewhere in Kirgizstan. Zarlyk, till now considered missing by his loved ones, returns home after 20 years as a guest worker in Russia. A lot has happened in two decades: his son has two kids of his own now, his wife, believing Zarlyk dead, has remarried, his friends have aged and Zarlyk can't relate to any of this because he has lost his memory.
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Asian World Film Festival
The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF), founded by Kyrgyz public figure Sadyk Sher-Niyaz and overseen by Executive & Program Director Georges N. Chamchoum, brings the very best of a broad selection of Asian World cinema to Los Angeles to draw greater recognition to the region's wealth of filmmakers and strengthen ties between the Asian and Hollywood film industries. Uniting through cross-cultural collaboration, the Festival champions films from over 50 countries across Asia, spanning from Turkey to Japan and from Russia to India and South-East Asia. The Festival is unique in that it predominantly screens Oscar and Golden Globe submissions for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language respectively. All films that participate in the Festival will have a unique chance to be guided through the challenging awards season and showcased to members of the Motion Picture Academy, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and all Guilds for enhanced exposure, media attention and awards consideration. AWFF is a non-profit organization under Aitysh USA.