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Most of us grow up just when it is too late. Beshkempir, then, is one of us. And then maybe he isn't - thsi movie received all its awards for showing that it's never too late to grow up.
The Hyderabad Film Club, in collaboration with the Federation Of Film Societies Of India, Mumbai, is organising a 3-day Festival Of Films From Central Asia, from 11th to 13th May, at Sarathi Studios in Ameerpet.
Today, the final day, The Adopted Son (Beshkempir), a Kyrgyzstan film, will be the second and final film to be screened. The movie, directed by Aktan Abdykalykov, starts with an adoption ceremony presided over by 5 old women (Beshkempir literally means five grandmothers), in a village in Kyrgyzstan. The film then flashes forward a decade or so to show the coming of age of the adopted child - Beshkempir.
He is shown indulging, in a rural setting, in childhood pranks and activities with friends, like stealing honey from beehives and going to watch screened Hindi movies. However, approaching adolescence leads the boys to spy on a village woman
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