- year : 2020
- country : Tajikistan
- timing : 116'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Rumi Shoazimov
written by Timur Zulfikarov, Rumi Shoazimov
produced by Nosir Rahmon
Dop Sultan Sukiev
music by Ikbol Zavkibekov
sound by Shahriniso Yakovleva
editor Rumi Shoazimov
production designer Akmal Mirshakar
cast: Aslanshah Rahmatullaev, Barohat Shukurova, Rafoat Shoazimova, Azam Andambekov, Sherali Abdulkaisov
production company: "Tajikfilm"
Yakhya Kurbanovich, the owner of a rickety old house and the Little Paradise barber’s on the outskirts of a perpetually dust-covered provincial town in Central Asia, and his wife, Fatima Khanum, dream of finding a husband for their daughter, who has four first names: Rukhshona, Zemfira, Dunya and Sara. Such is the wonderful time we live in, when we have to be ready for anything... political correctness... tolerance... and idealism.
- International Film Festival "Fathers and Sons", Special Jury Prize, Audience Award actress Rafoat Shaosimova, Laureate 1st degree Ikbol Zavkibekov for the music for the film (2020, Russia, Orel)
- Leonid Khromov International Film Festival, Special nomination from the chairman of the jury of the "Discovery of the Year" Film Festival (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Festival of India (2020, India, Goa)
- Diorama International Film Festival (2020, India, New Delhi)
- Asti International Film Festival, Best Actress - Rafoat Shoazimova (2020, Italy, Asti)
- Festival Debut Film "Magic of Cinema" (2020, Russia, Odintsovo)
- International Film Forum "Zolotoy Vityaz" (Golden knight) (2021, Russia, Sevastopol)
- Las Vegas Asian Film Awards (2021, United States, Las Vegas)
- Golden Tower International Film Festival (2021, Republic of Ingushetia (Russia), Magas)
- International military-patriotic Film Festival "Volokolamsk Frontier" (2021, Russia, Volokolamsk)
- Florida South Asian Film Festival (2021, United States, Florida)
Director’s statement
The idea of this film flashed into my mind as I observed the social reaction of people in my inner circle. Initially, you believe almost everything they say, but later you discover that these are all fantasies that they really believe in. It was important for me to show and reveal this phenomenon through the expressive and conceptual means of cinema. The main protagonists of the film, one might say the modern Don Quixotes, allow us to reveal the absurdity of the modern world, on the one hand, and the difference between real human values and fictions about the same social phenomenon, on the other hand.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Rumi Shoazimov was born on 21.07.1992 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. In 2009, he entered the Department of General Stage Management of VGIK (workshop of V.V.Menshov and V.I.Tumaev) by presidential quota. He has been working at "Tajikfilm" Studio since 2014. The "Monkey's Dream" film is his feature length debut, produced at "Tajikfilm" Studio.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - "Provincial Dreamers", full-length film
2016 - "The monkey's dream", full-length film / debut
2014 - "Omnipresent", short film / diploma
2012 - "Chorus girl", short film
2012 - "Characters", short film