Crickets, It's Your Turn
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“A diagnosis, not a prescription.”
Crickets, It’s Your Turn is a darkly absurd feminist parable in which a young photographer’s private theatre of imagination begins to invade reality. Merey enters a mountain house governed by hierarchy, male solidarity and the logic of the strongest. She follows another logic: beauty, play and creation. Through white-room tableaux, grotesque humour and deliberate ruptures between realism and theatre, an ordinary gathering becomes a study of collective complicity. The danger comes not from a single monster, but from reasonable men who protect one another until violence becomes ceremony.
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Olga Korotko Director · Aigul Nurbulatova Cinematographer Ricardo Saraiva Editor
United States release March 4, 2025 · Produced in France, Kazakhstan · Languages Kazakh, Russian
Production
Caractères Productions
Production
Seven Rivers Cinema Production
Production
France · Kazakhstan
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Original language
Kazakh
Spoken on screen
Kazakh · Russian
Release dates
Switzerland · August 14, 2024
Premiere · 77th Locarno Film Festival — World Premiere, Concorso Cineasti del Presente
United States · March 4, 2025
Premiere · Glasgow Film Festival — UK Premiere
Brazil
October 27, 2024 · Premiere · 48th São Paulo International Film Festival — New Directors Competition
Egypt
October 28, 2024 · Premiere · El Gouna Film Festival — Feature Narrative Competition
Finland
September 22, 2024 · Premiere · Helsinki International Film Festival — Love & Anarchy
India
November 23, 2024 · Premiere · 55th International Film Festival of India, Goa
December 12, 2024 · Premiere · 22nd Chennai International Film Festival — World Cinema
March 23, 2025 · Premiere · 2nd Cinévesture International Film Festival — World Canvas
Netherlands
November 8, 2025 · Premiere · Eastern Neighbours Film Festival — Dutch Premiere
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