Supported project
ORTALAN

- Director: Nariman Aliev
- Scriptwriter: Nariman Aliev
- Countries: Ukraine / France
- Genre: Fiction
- Country of shooting: Ukraine, Turkey, Kazakhstan
- Language: Crimean Tatar, Ukrainian, Russian, Uzbekistanin
- Duration: 110 min
SYNOPSIS
On May 18, 1944, the entire Crimean Tatar people were deported from their homeland, except for the boy Ismail, who doesn’t know what happened and where his family disappeared to.
CONTACT
Ukrainian producer
Fore Films
Volodymyr Yatsenko
volodymyr@forefilms.com
Producer from a contributing country
Les Contes Modernes (France)
Patrice Nezan
patrice@lescontesmodernes.fr
AMOUNT OF THE SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT: 25 000 €
Date of the decision : July 26th, 2024
THE DIRECTOR

Born in 1992, Nariman Aliev is a Ukrainian director and screenwriter of Crimean Tatar origin. In 2014, he received a MA in Film directing at the Kyiv National University. Nariman is a member of the European Film Academy and the Ukrainian Film Academy, receiving the honorary state title of Honoured Artist of Ukraine for outsanding achievement in the performing arts.
In 2019, his feature film debut Homeward premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. The film won best film at Odesa, Bucharest and Istanbul as well as Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor at the Ukrainian Film Critics Awards 2019 and Best Director and Best Actor at the Ukrainian Film Academy Awards 2020. The Ukrainian Oscar Committee selected Homeward as Ukraine’s national nominee for the Academy Award for Best International Film.
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