2000 Songs of Farida

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2000 Songs of Farida
2000 Songs of Farida.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Yalkin Tuychiev
Written byYalkin Tuychiev
Produced by
Shavkat Rizaev
Starring
  • Sanobar Haqnazarova
  • Bahrom Matchanov
  • Ilmira Rahimjanova
  • Yulduz Rajabova
  • Marjona Uljayeva
CinematographyBahadir Yuldashev
Edited byHurshid Alihodjaev
Production
company
Fox Music Cinema
Distributed byFox Music Cinema
Release date
  • 9 October 2020 (2020-10-09)(Busan)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUzbekistan
Language Uzbek

2000 Songs of Farida (Uzbek : Faridaning ikki ming qoʻshigʻi), also translated as Farida's 2000 Songs, is a 2020 Uzbekistani drama film directed by Yalkin Tuychiev. It is set in Central Asia in 1920.

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The film premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival on 17 October 2020, and was shown a couple of weeks later at the 2020 Busan International Film Festival. It was selected as the Uzbekistani entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but was disqualified owing to the correct format of the film not being submitted by the deadline. However, it was resubmitted for the following year.

Plot

The film is set in a rural location in Central Asia (present-day Uzbekistan) during the civil war following the 1917 Russian Revolution, which spread into the Russian colonies in the region. [1] Set in 1920, the Bolshevik forces are closing in, close to victory in taking over the republic. [2]

The story centres on a landowner in a rural location, who already has three wives, and has his life disrupted when a fourth wife arrives at his home. [3] He has married the new, younger wife because his other wives had not produced an heir for him, [2] but he treats his wives poorly, and the women forge close relationships among themselves. The coming of the Bolsheviks means that women's roles in society will change. [4]

Cast

Themes

One reviewer described the film as "a story about the changes in local women’s lives under patriarchy and the war going on around them. Using the example of one local family, the film analyzes how the historical events of the beginning of the last century in Turkestan, affected the life of the population of this region". [2]

The director said "This film is neither a historical decoration nor a museum exhibition,... but the exploration of a real-life, real people, their reality, dignity and truth... that gets over the borders of history, mentality, nationality and race in order to reach a real sense of humaneness". [2]

World Film Reviews called it a "deceptively clever film", with the final 20 minutes particularly exciting. [1]

Production

2000 Songs of Farida was directed by Yalkin Tuychiev, [5] a director from Tashkent, born in 1977 when Uzbekistan was still a Soviet Republic, whose earlier films had been selected for international film festivals before. [2] It was produced by Shavkat Rizayev. [4]

Called Faridaning ikki ming qoʻshigʻi in the Uzbek language, the film title has also been translated as Farida's 2000 Songs. [6] The film makes use of long takes, showing the dry and rural landscape around the house where all of the action takes place. [2]

Release

The film premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival on 17 October 2020, [3] and was also selected for the 2020 Busan International Film Festival, where it was shown a couple of weeks later. [6]

Its German premiere was at the GoEast festival, based in Wiesbaden but much of it online, in April 2021, [7] [4] and it was shown at the 6th Ulju Mountain Film Festival, a film festival held in the Yeongnam Alps in South Korea [8] dedicated to films about mountains and mountaineering. It was listed as the first of twelve films not to be missed at the festival. [9]

Reception

The film was submitted for the Golden Globes in 2020, but was not nominated. The website reviewer called it a rare film: [2]

It was selected as the Uzbekistani entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. [10] [11] However, the film was disqualified, [12] because the Uzbek Film Commission did not submit the required format of the film to the Academy in time. [1] [13] It was resubmitted for the following year. [14]

At the 6th edition of the annual Asian World Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2021, 2000 Songs of Farida won the Snow Leopard Audience Award. [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Uzbekistan—2000 Songs of Farida". World Film Reviews. 20 December 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Rakhlin, Serge (12 January 2021). "2000 Songs of Farida (Uzbekistan)". Golden Globes. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  3. 1 2 "2000 Songs of Farida". Adelaide Film Festival . Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 "Faridaning Ikki Ming Qo'shig'i: 2000 Songs Of Farida". goEast . Retrieved 6 September 2021. Festival programme
  5. ↑ ""Faridaning ikki ming qoʻshigʻi"ni koʻrdim, afsus..." Xabar.uz. 23 May 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  6. 1 2 "Farida′s 2000 Songs". Busan International Film Festival . Archived from the original on 19 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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  8. ↑ "International Alliance for Mountain Film". International Alliance for Mountain Film. 19 March 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  9. ↑ "12 Films you shouldn't miss at the 6th Ulju Mountain Film Festival". Asian Film Festivals. 1 April 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  10. ↑ "Oʻzbekistondan Oscar mukofotiga "Faridaning ikki ming qoʻshigʻi" tavsiya etildi". Uz Report (in Uzbek). 21 November 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  11. ↑ "O'zbekiston nomidan "Oscar" mukofotiga ilgari suriladigan film nomlari e'lon qilindi". Daryo.uz (in Uzbek). 14 November 2020. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  12. ↑ ""Faridaning ikki ming qo'shig'i" "Oskar"da qatnashmaydi". Uzreport. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  13. ↑ "Oscar Submissions 2021 - The Films from Asia and the Pacific (18 films)". Foreign Films. 9 February 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  14. ↑ "Oscars International Race 2021: Complete List of Entries". The Wrap. 9 November 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  15. ↑ Leiber, Sarah Jae (17 March 2021). "6th Annual Asian World Film Festival Announces Winners". Broadway World. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
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