Panorama
Director: Mirlan Abdykalykov
Cast: Akak Berdibekova / Elchibek Shamenov / Mairambek Erkegulov
Kyrgyzstan / Kazakhstan
The film is based on numerous true stories of girls and women who became victims of “bride kidnapping” in Kyrgyzstan. Hiding under ancient tradition, which nowadays was greatly distorted, men abduct women and force them to marry.
UMUT (19) lives with her mother at the suburbs of Bishkek city and works as a nurse in a local hospital. She becomes a randomly selected victim of bride kidnapping.