In Almaty, a sheltered and chaste woman named Din sees her life intertwined with the experiences of a prostitute who looks like her.
Direction
Kim's signature static long takes, now with zero dialogue.
Cinematography
Almaty's brutalist architecture as emotional prison.
Acting
Zhumagaliyeva's wordless duality—restrained and raw.
Director
Kim Ki-duk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kim Ki-duk shot this in 12 days with a skeleton crew in Kazakhstan, his final film before his COVID death in 2020. He never saw it released.
The film was banned in Kazakhstan for its unflinching portrayal of patriarchal religious structures and sex work in Almaty.
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