Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Elizaveta Stishova's Suleiman Mountain, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from August 19 – September 17, 2019 in Mubi's Debuts series.Love is a tricky thing to find in Elizaveta Stishova’s Suleiman Mountain. In her debut feature the Russian director journeys to the mountain-hugged region of Osh, Kyrgyzstan to explore the most unconventional of families. A young boy named Uluk (Daniel Daiyrbekov) is discovered in an orphanage by his alleged mother Zhipara (Perizat Ermanbaeva) after a long and unspecified disappearance. Amongst the overcrowded beds filled with orphaned boys half-asleep, Uluk is shaken from a deep slumber to the sound of the orphanage warden announcing that his mother has come to take him away. It is a moment of bewildering rebirth. Stiff shouldered and perturbed, Uluk is returned to a home he does not recognize—he...
- 8/5/2019
- MUBI
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