Celestial Camel
Director: Jury Feting
Russia | Russian, Kalmyk
2015 | 90min | Colour
Subtitles: English
Sunday, Nov 8 Club House, 11:00 AM
Kalmyks say that a camel-shaped cloud brings good luck. A white little colt (celestial camel) Altynka was born under the such cloud. During the film shooting accidentally dies a white colt. A dubbing camel is required urgently. The movie-manager arrives at a far-away steppe station of a poor shepherd Dorzhi. Altynka is sold. The mother-camel runs away in to the steppe in search of her son. Twelve-year-old Bayir rides to steppe on his father’s old motorbike in search of mother-camel. Bayir meets kind and evil people in the steppe. Summoners of rain, a disciple of Lama, help him in his way. Bayir meets a teenager named Quarter and they become friends. Meanwhile, at the railway station, the movie-manager is not able to send the white camel to the film-shooting place. Bayir and Quarter ride to the railway station by motorbike. There the friends meet both- the mother camel and the colt. Will Bayir be able to save Altynka and return home with the camel?
Jury Feting
Jury Feting, born on the 3rd of November, 1956, is a Russian film director, screenwriter, and professor at St.-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts and St.-Petersburg Higher School for Filmmakers and Screenwriters. He graduated from Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, a Moscow drama college that is part of The E. Vakhtangov Theatre; 1978. Before 1989, he was a theatre actor and director at the Moscow State Theatre named after Leninsky Komsomol and The Rock Opera Theatre. In 1990, Feting graduated from Higher School for Screenwriters and Directors from the workshop of Alexey German. Since 1995, Feting has been a film director at Lenfilm studio in St. Petersburg.
Credits
Director: Jury Feting
Producer: Irina Plisko, Mikhail Plisko
Cinematographer: Anton Zhabin
Screenwriter: Elzyata Mandzhieva
Editor: Namrata Rao
Music: Maksim Koshevarov
Production Company: Production Centre “Vse horosho”
Cast: Mikhail Gasanov, Petr Novikov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Batr Mandzhiev, Baira Mandzhieva, Irina Hurgunova, Danzan Badrashkiev, Tzeden Konaev, Vitaly Makhov
Festival Appearances & Awards
Kinoshok, Russia 2015 – Best Children’s Feature Film
Berlin International Film Festival 2015
TIFF KIDS, Toronto 2015
Zlin Film Festival 2015
Little Big Films, Germany 2015
