Bedouin recognized in Belgrade
A bold Russian story of a mother ready to go to extremes to save her daughter from leukemia has won the hearts of the jury at a major international film festival in Serbia.
Judges at the Belgrade International Film Festival – FEST – described the winning entry Bedouin as a “modern fairy-tale about how far a mother can go for the sake of her dying daughter, taking her from her native Kyiv to St. Petersburg and then to Jordan’s deserts.”
The film’s helmer Igor Voloshin was praised for his directing skills and talent in working with actors.
“The nature of the mother who saves her kid is the driving force of Life,” the film’s director was quoted as saying, promising that his Bedouin will keep audiences enthralled.
Rita’s teenage daughter has leukemia. In order to save her, the young woman agrees to become a surrogate mother for a gay couple, and to take part in a porn movie. When Rita suddenly learns that camel milk could help her daughter, she takes Nastya with her to Jordan, in search of Bedouin tribes and salvation.
Since 1971, the Belgrade International Film Festival has evolved to become one of the most important movie events on the continent, open to films from all parts of the world, as well as to “all relevant authors and works that would never have the opportunity to be shown in cinemas.”