Mountain onion
About 11-year-old Jabai sells mountain onions alongside the highway and one day he catches his idol trucker having sex with his mom. Jabai and his sister, Saniya, embark on a journey from their small village in Kazakhstan to China, to obtain the only thing that will save their father and help him become a strong man, the ‘Golden Viagra’.
Kazakhstan, 2022, 90 min.
Production: The applebox
Language: Kazakh, Russian, Chinese
Written by: Eldar Shibanov, Yuliya Levitskaya
Directed by: Eldar Shibanov
Producer: Yuliya Levitskaya, Dias Shibanov
Cinematography by: Dias Shibanov
Sound by: Ilya Gariyev
Cast: Esil Amantay, Amina Gaziyeva, Zhazira Kaskey, Kuantay Abdimadi, Laura Tursunkanova, Sanjar Madi