Crickets, It's Your Turn​

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Drama

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When the 25-year-old photographer Merey (Inzhu Abeu) meets the likeable Nurlan (Ayan Batyrbek) and he invites her to a birthday party up in the Kazakhstan mountains with his friends, it sounds as though it will be fun - but the reality is anything but. On arrival, it turns out she is the only woman there apart from a group of sex workers, marking the start of a dangerous night. Filmmaker Olga Korotko draws us into the psyche of Merey while slowly turning the screw of her cat-and-mouse revenge thriller, laced with dark humour, which dissects toxic masculinity, male competitiveness and compliance.