Bread of Rashtona Tajikistan
2007, 26min.
Prod.: Safar Khakdodov, Scrip/Dir.: Shoddi Saleh, Dir. of Phot.: Zikirieh Israilov, Compos.: Akasharifa Juraeva, Edit.: Denis Beketov.
For centuries the peoples of Central Asia, the Tajiks in particular, have had a special attitude towards bread. Bread has been and continues to be not merely food but a sacred object of worship. The film first tells about the traditions of making bread. Loaves of various size and shape are baked for all occasions in life: the birth of a child, a wedding party, or the memory of the dead. Lastly, bread is also related to people’s fates. In some households people still keep a bitten piece of bread and wait for the person who has left his/her mark on the bread.
| Saleh, Shoddi Shoddi Saleh
Since the situation in Tajikistan in terms of film production and training of young professionals is rather complicated, Safar Khakdodov and Sadullo Rahimov, the founders of CineService, opened up a small school of cinema in 2005 with the support of the renowned Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. In 2007 CineService organised a training course for young cinematographers, upon completion of which the graduates started to make their early works assisted by skillful dramatists and cameramen. Bread of Rashtona is the first work of the film director Shoddi Saleh who was among the graduates.
Filmography
Bread of Rashtona (2007).
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