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Runtime: 85 min.
Production: Niemcy/Polska , 2016
Category: family
Release Date: 21 April 2017
Distribution: Against Gravity
Directed by: Marta Minorowicz
Cast: Batsaikhan Budee, Sukhbat Batsaikhan, Bayasgalan Batsaikhan
ZUD this is the time when nature takes control of human and animal life. Sukhbat 11-year-old and his parents live on the Mongolian steppe. The sudden drop in temperature causes the massive death of animals belonging to the family. The boy's father, Batsaikhan, decides that the solution to this situation would be to catch a wild horse and prepare it to start in the races. Rider, whose victory would allow the family to survive, it has to be his son Sukhbat. Before the boy faces challenges and the first dramatic decisions that must itself take and which to weigh on his future life.
The story is a parable about the human struggle with nature and attempt to answer the question of what may end up efforts to tame it. Nature here is one of the main characters in the film - we admire her power, unpredictability and metaphysical power.
ZUD received, among others, nominated for the Crystal Bear at the International Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for the Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, the prize for the biggest Fathy Farag artistic contribution at the Cairo International Film Critics Week and honorable mention in the contest Another Look at the Film Festival in Gdynia. Also nominated for the award for cinematography (Paweł Chorzępa) at Camerimage in 2016 and qualified for the Competition Fiction / Non-Fiction Film Festival 13. Millennium Docs Against Gravity.