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Tramway Film Festival

SHOKOUK: A COSMICOMEDY IN FOUR ACTS

Uzbekistan, Canada | 2023 | 17’ | Polish premiere

Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts is a transhistorical hybrid documentary that traces a polyphony of characters, sites and encounters related to infrastructures of space travel and cosmic imaginaries. Following a vertiginous narrative connecting various cosmic machinations from the 12th century Persianate world to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the present moment, the film weaves historical facts and archival fabulations, and questions our common perceptions of time and space.

Director: Felix Kalmenson, Rouzbeh Akhbari
Script: Rouzbeh Akhbari, Felix Kalmenson, Ulyana Toporovskaya, Lera Kim, Irakli Qolbaia
Cinematography: Sadriddin Shahobiddinov
Editing: Felix Kalmenson and Rouzbeh Akhbari
Sound: Jokūbas Čižikas
Cast: Zufar Raimov
Producer: Rouzbeh Akhbari, Felix Kalmenson, Foziljon Yunusov

Main festivals:

  • ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary Experimental Film Festival
  • Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival
  • Media City Film Festival
  • Tampere Film Festival
  • Tirana International Film Festival