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The film "Ayka" earned the Kazakh actress Samal Yeslyamova the prize of female interpretation in Cannes. Russian director Sergey Dvortsevoy tells the story of a young Kyrgyz woman without papers in a ruthless Russian society.
In the freezing winter of Moscow, a young woman runs away through a maternity window, abandoning her baby. She runs through the snowy streets, folded in two by pain, to regain as quickly as possible a clandestine workshop where she plucks chickens to the chain.
Serguey Dvortsevoy's camera follows closely the fight of Ayka, a young undocumented Kyrgyz whose phone rings continuously stalked by a mafia, to which she borrowed money.
A film shot as a documentary
The film with the gray image of dirty snow, shot as a documentary, hardly shows us the exhausted face and filled with fever of the heroine but exposes in close-up his back, his neck, his profile as to better underline his invisibility .
Ignored by his former Soviet compatriots, exploited or abused by corrupt police officers, the director draws through the wandering and calvary of Ayka the portrait of a ruthless Russian society for the weak.
The jury of the last Cannes Film Festival awarded Samal Yeslyamova the prize of female interpretation, for this bitter and very physical role.