Emir Baigazin : 2013
Harmony Lessons
During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent anankastic personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with trying to control everything around him. His compulsion draws Aslan, who lives with his grandmother in a village in Kazakhstan, into increasingly difficult situations. He abhors the way most of his fellow pupils are held in the sway of a criminal scheme, in which Bolat, one of Aslan's tormentors, is also involved. Bolat blackmails the younger children into paying him protection money and he has nothing but contempt for ostracised Aslan. Out of good motives to rid his school of crime, Aslan decides to kill Bolat. Emir Baigazin's debut feature delineates the clash between an individual and the mechanisms of marginalisation and violence. Winner of the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution when the film premiered at Berlin International Film Festival 2013.
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