Juozas Budraitis

A painter gets caught up in a love triangle with a Jewish and Latvian woman that turns upside after one falls victim to the Nazis' persecutions.

Made on the eve of the Soviet Union’s collapse, Ermek Shinarbaev’s Kazakh New Wave classic is one of the first films to center on the Korean diaspora in Central Asia. Setting destructive human desires against a ravishing landscape, this poetic revenge tale charts the forceful grip of family trauma.