Trans Sibirian Express: Bibinur

Director: Iurii Feting

Tatarstan, Russia, a small village. An old woman, Bibinur Juhangir, whose Tatar name means “the mistress of light,” sees a dream telling that she is going to die next Friday. She has to use the time rest to give all of her debts and to prepare for the departure. Following a prominent thematic trend in Russian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and other post-Soviet national cinemas, Iurii Feting’s beautifully filmed parable from Tatarstan sets out to reaffirm Tatar traditional values, native spirituality and the love of the ancestral land.

Trans Sibirian Express Programme