Tulpan is a deceptively simple but captivating story about a group of nomadic shepherds in the poverty-stricken Betpak Dala region of southern Kazakhstan. The movie, which is now on release in several ...

Film #1-“Tulpan- I had been looking forward to Sergey Dvortsevoy’s new film with great anticipation. Ten years ago, I saw his documentary short, “Bread Day” at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. There ...

SYDNEY -- Kazakh writer-director Sergey Dvortsevoy's first movie, "Tulpan," won best feature film Tuesday at the second annual Asia-Pacific Screen Awards on Australia's Gold Coast. By Pip Bulbeck, The ...

A small mob of camels stampede by a nomad’s tent, with something that might once have been a tractor eating the kicked-up dust. Inside, a young guy in a sailor suit sits on the rug, cheerfully ...

Asa is a young Kazakh sailor just returning home from his time serving in the Russian Navy. Once home, he finds himself living with his sister and her bullish older husband who works as a sheep ...

TOKYO -- After a well-received nine-day run, the 21st Tokyo International Film Festival wrapped Sunday, with Sergey Dvortsevoy’s "Tulpan" taking two awards. By Gavin J Blair, The Associated Press ...

On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It's dry, dusty, and windy; too many lambs ...

Tulpan is the first feature film written and directed by Kazakhstan native Sergey Dvortsevoy, released by Zeitgeist films in 2008 and having its Minnesota premiere next month at the Walker Art Center.

A welcome respite from the stampede of tech-heavy, summer-movie behemoths, Cannes 2008 award-winner “Tulpan” transports us to the wide-open spaces of Kazakhstan. There, tribesmen herd sheep on the ...

Askat Kuchinchirekov takes a gander at his oversized jug handles in 'Tulpan.' If National Geographic made a narrative feature film, it would probably look a whole lot like "Tulpan." Set on the steppes ...

The traditional lifestyle of nomadic sheep herders on the harsh Kazakh steppe provides quietly sensational drama in "Tulpan," the feature debut of Kazakh-born documaker extraordinaire Sergey ...

The traditional lifestyle of nomadic sheep herders on the harsh Kazakh steppe provides quietly sensational drama in "Tulpan," the feature debut of Kazakh-born documaker extraordinaire Sergey ...