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37 Uses for a Dead Sheep

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  • Website

    tigerlilyfilms.com
  • Directors

    Ben Hopkins
  • Awards

    Winner Best British Documentary, BritDocs 2006, Winner Caligari Prize, Berlin International Film Festival 2006, Winner Best International Documentary, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2006
  • Festivals

    37 Uses has also appeared in the following Festivals: 56th Berlinale in Germany (February 2006) - Winning the Caligari Prize Vilnius Film Festival (Kino Pavasaris) In Lithuania (March/April 2006) 25th Istanbul Festival in (April 2006) Buenos Aires 8th Film Festval in Argentina (April 2006) Tribeca in the USA (April/May 2006) HotDocs in Canada (2nd and 4th May 2006) - Winning Best International Documentary Seattle Film Festival in the USA (May/June 2006) Transilvania Film Festival in Romania (June 2006) Sunny Side of the Doc in France (June 2006) Jerusalem Film Festival (July 2006) BritDoc in England (27th July 2006) - Winning Best British Feature Documentary
  • Professional Affiliations

    Tigerlily Films

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The Pamir Kirghiz are a tribe of some 2,000 people from the Pamir region of Central Asia. For the last 27 years they have lived in exile in Eastern Turkey. In 2005 an Anglo-Turkish film crew arrives in their village to work with the tribe to tell their story. In a series of scenes divided into chapters, we see revealing interviews with the Kirghiz, see exciting and entertaining reconstructions shot on film in a variety of different cinematic styles, and comic scenes of the interaction between the film crew and the community. During this process, we learn how the Pamir Kirghiz antipathy to Communism drove them from the Soviet Union, then later from Maoist China, and finally from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to their current exile. And as the past is explored in interview and reconstruction, we see how the Pamir Kirghiz live today in modern Turkey. The film is part historical document, part ethnographical description of a unique people, part portrait of the conflict between individual and globalised culture, and part comedy about the process of film-making. .. .. MySpace Layouts

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  • Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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