Burul is a short film from Kyrgyzstan by Adilet Karzhoev of 2023, in competition at Ten Minutes Film Festival. It will be screened on Thursday 4 July at 9pm at the Dream cinema in Frosinone.
Burul lives with his parents in a small countryside village in Central Asia. He helps his parents take care of his little sister, while they look after the farm. Yet she needs to take a moment for herself: she wakes up early to practice judo techniques with a dummy given to her by the school instructor. She asks him to let her watch the school team practice, but he cannot coach her without her parents’ permission.
Burul’s father does not agree; so one day he decides to throw away the mannequin. On her way back from school, the girl is kidnapped. Will she be able to defend herself with what she has learned?
Martial arts and social struggle
Burul lives her dream, but she is not absorbed by it. Judo for her is a lifestyle and a set of values. From this point of view, the short film takes sport as its central theme without being a strictly sports genre in itself.
The girl achieves her emancipation and demonstrates to the men around her (both friends and enemies) that she can decide for herself through judo. Burul, Despite its length, it becomes part of the tradition of Asian martial arts cinema, as the Western is to the Western.
As in the classics of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, in Oldboyor in new Indonesian films like The night above us or the saga of The Raid, fighting is a human clash, of worldviews, personalities, hopes. Burul proceeds with an edit that he knows when to speed up and when to take his own time. Its main merit is that it is not one of those films on social issues that focus on melodrama and victimhood to the point of causing the viewer to cry and little else.
However, it succeeds in its intent by mixing, albeit for an instant but perhaps for this very reason with great impact, auteur cinema and the martial genre.
2024-06-30 07:11:51
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