Tajik young filmmaker, Ms. Sharofat Arabova, plans to shoot movie about young Tajik women who wants to sell her newborn baby. Indian cinematographers have agreed to help her but they need one more producer.
Project for the full-length film has been presented at the exhibition of the Asian Film Market in Busan during the international film festival and Indian partners have supported it.
“Producer and filmmaker Pushpendra Singh who heads the Marudhar Arts Studio has shown interest in my scenario and agreed to produce the film,” Sharofat Arabova told Asia-Plus in an interview.
“We are open for cooperation and we are currently seeking co-producers and partners both inside and outside the country,” Ms. Arabova said, inviting domestic businesspeople to support her project.
Ms. Sharofat Arabova graduated from Dushanbe Art College in 1997 before graduating in 2006 from Russian-Tajik Slavic University (RTSU) in Dushanbe. She was scholarship holder of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). Sharofat Arabova also graduated from the Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in February 2013.
She has made five short films in English and Hindi.
He short movie In Between won a prize of the 3rd international short film festival that took in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek in December 2013. Short movies from the CIS nations, Baltic nations and Georgia participated in the film festival in Bishkek and In Between was recognized the best in the “The Best Film” nomination.
In Between is a film about migrant people, inhabiting Indian metropolis. In spite of their origins they are all foreigners: someone more, someone less, being ‘strangers’ in the land they came to occupy to find human happiness. The Russian dancer come model Marina, a South Indian guy Balan, Nepali teenage girl Ayushi and her mother struggle with the identities they belong to in the new world stuck ‘in between’.
Meanwhile, a full-length film Tasfiya by Sharofat Arabova was shown at the 5th International Uranium Film Festival that took place in Rio de Janeiro in May 2015.
The film’s scenario is based on a novel by known Tajik poet, novelist and playwright Timur Zulfiqorov.
The symbolic narration tells a story about a young musician called Shams (meaning "Sun" in Tajik) who commits a murder of his beloved woman Mehri (whose name is translated as "Love" in Tajik). He admits his crime and is sent to the uranium mine next to the abandoned radioactive village. Shams is exiled for 10 years…
