Berik

Synopsis

A short drama about friendship and understanding, takes place in Semey, Kazakhstan. Berik, 33, blind and deformed due to radiation poisoning, spends his days at home alone, while his brother is at work. That is until Adil, 11, the smallest and least popular of the kids in the apartment block, turns up on Berik’s doorstep looking for the local bully’s football, which he has lost.

Director Biography

Born in 1981 in Dunedin, New Zealand, after studying Film Science at Otago University, he moved to Copenhagen, Denmark. There he has worked as a visual effects artist and film colourist on numerous feature film projects.