Long synopsis : A desolate, restless small town lost in the industrial wastelands of Kirghizstan. Plagued by boredom, confusion and sex - all the usual agonies of adolescence - 17-year old Chimp and his friends are killing time before undergoing military service, fighting, partying and working in the railyard. Chimp has more than his share of problems. His pretty, capricious girlfriend causes him nothing but heartache, his father is a self-loathing chronic alcoholic, and his long-suffering mother has had enough: she leaves, taking Chimp's kid sister with her.

Cast

• Sergej Golovkin, Chimp Abdykalykov, Zina Alexandra Mitrokhina

Crew

• Director(s): Aktan Abdykalykov
• DP: Hassan Kydyraliev

• Original Title: LE SINGE
• Genre(s): Drama


• Production company: NOE PRODUCTIONS, BESHKEMPIS FILMS, BITTERS END
• Production date: 2001
• Language: Kyrgyz
• Duration: 97 min

• Festival de Cannes 2001 - Un Certain Regard
  
• European Film Awards 2001
  Award(s) : European Discovery of the Year
• Jerusalem Film Festival 2001
  
• Edinburgh International Film Festival 2001
  
• Filmfest Hamburg 2001
  
• Sao Paulo Mostra Internacional de Cinema 2001
  
• Ljubljana International Film Festival 2001
  
• Busan International Film Festival 2001
  
• International Film Festival Rotterdam 2002
  
• Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2002
  
• Hong Kong International Film Festival 2002
  
• Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2003