Shiza (Schizo) (tbc)
- Run time: tbc
- Language: Russian with English subtitles
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 1st January 2005
- Starring: Oldzhas Nusupbayev, Olga Landina, Eduard Tabishev
- Directed by: Gulshat Omarova
- Official Website: http://www.schizo-the-movie.com
Plot Synopsis
Schizo is the nickname of 15-year-old Mustafa. Lonely and with few friends, he is expelled from school after his class mates play a cruel joke on him. Hired by his mother’s boyfriend, his introduction to the world of work is to provide fighters for illegal bare-knuckle boxing. His life is drastically changed when a young man is killed during a fight. He visits the man’s girlfriend to give her the money that the boxer had won. However when he sees the young woman he falls instantly in love.
SCHIZO, writer/director Guka Omarova: “Filming scenes with real free fighters is really difficult. They don’t know how to fake it, they fight with all their strength...” Though the fight scenes certainly have a raw intensity, this is not a Kazakh FIGHT CLUB but rather a poetic, tender and most convincing debut and further proof of the strength of recent Central Asian cinema.