Tulpan

Asa, a sailor back from the Russian navy, lives with his sister Samal and her husband Ondas on the Kazakh steppe and dreams of a flock of his own. Believing he needs a wife first, he courts Tulpan, the only eligible young woman nearby, but her parents reject him as an unemployed man with poor prospects. This is the first narrative feature by Dvortsevoy, known until then for documentaries, and it won the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2008.