Jihad

Almagul Menlibayeva | Kazakhstan | 2006 | 5' |

| IFFR 2006

An unknown ritual. A young woman plays with her headscarf with, in the background, the second Mecca of the Middle East: the holy grave of the 13th-century Sufi Hodji Ahmed Yassavi. His inner quest was ‘jihad’, a word that acquires a new resonance thanks to the clear colours and tight choreography of the film maker.

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