AYKA
synopsis
A young Kyrgyz girl - Ayka - lives and works illegally in Moscow. After giving birth to her son she leaves him in hospital. Some time later, however, her motherly yearning leads her to desperate attempts of finding the abandoned child.
| international title: | Ayka |
| original title: | Ayka |
| country: | Russia, Germany, Poland, Kazakhstan, China |
| sales agent: | The Match Factory |
| year: | 2018 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Sergey Dvortsevoy |
| film run: | 100' |
| release date: | PL 30/11/2018, FR 16/01/2019, PT 4/04/2019, DE 18/04/2019, NL 16/05/2019 |
| screenplay: | Sergey Dvortsevoy, Gennady Ostrowski |
| cast: | Samal Yeslyamova |
| cinematography by: | Jolanta Dylewska |
| art director: | Olga Jurasova |
| costumes designer: | Aleksandra Demidova |
| producer: | Sergiey Dvortsevoy, Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Anna Wydra |
| co-producer: | Karl Baumgarten, Anna Wydra, Gulnara Sarsenova, Li Zhu, Luna Wang, Michel Merkt |
| production: | Pallas Film GmbH, Otter Films, KNM, Kinodvor (RU), Eurasia (KZ), Juben Pictures (CN) |
| backing: | Russian Ministry of Culture (RU), Eurimages, Polish Film Institute (PL), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (DE) |
| distributor: | Against Gravity, ARP Sélection, Legendmain, Cinéart Netherlands B.V., Filmcoopi, Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH, Paco Poch Cinema |
