37 Uses of a Dead Sheep
Country
United Kingdom (UK)
Project status
Produced
Festivals
Awards
- Caligari Film Prize at Berlinale (2006)
- Best International Documentary Award at Hot Docs (2006)
- Best British Documentary Award at BRITDOC (2006)
- Special Jury Prize at Banff World Television Festival (2007)
Producer
The Pamir Kirghiz are a tribe of some 2,000 people from the Pamir region of Central Asia. For the last 27 years they have lived in exile in Eastern Turkey. In 2005, an Anglo-Turkish film crew arrives in their village to work with the tribe to tell their story. In a series of scenes divided into "chapters", we see revealing interviews with the Kirghiz.
The film is part historical document, part ethnographical description of a unique people and the conflict between individual and globalized culture.
Team Partner
Ben Hopkins, director
Producer / Production Details
Tigerlily Films production for BBC Storyville and ARTE
Distributed by Piffl Medien