Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her fellow orphanage “graduate” the pregnant, and equally isolated, Anya. In the midst of giving birth to her child, tragedy strikes and Anya dies. Never knowing her mother, the newborn girl must be submitted to the orphanage and so Nagima sees the vicious cycle of life in repetitious action and becomes severely depressed at the cruelty of life.
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Zhanna Issabayeva Director · Sayat Zhangazinov Cinematographer Azamat Altybasov Editor
First release October 4, 2013 · Produced in Kazakhstan · Original title Нагима
Production
Kazakhstan
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Original title
Нагима
Original language
Kazakh
Spoken on screen
Kazakh
Release dates
South Korea · October 4, 2013
Premiere · Busan International Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
July 4, 2014 · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
France
November 26, 2014 · Theatrical
Germany
February 7, 2014 · Theatrical
Greece
November 1, 2014 · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
United Kingdom
October 12, 2014 · London Film Festival
Vietnam
November 23, 2014 · Hanoi International Film Festival
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