BESH-TEREK
Five Poplars
Aktan Abdykalykov, Ernest Abdyschaparov
Kirghizia 1995 | 30 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU
Kirghizia 1995 | 30 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU

Inca de Oro, a small town in northern Chile on the edge of the desert, exactly in line with the tropic of Capricorn. Today, 600 towns people still earn their living from gold. The film portrays the life of these latter-day gold-diggers who continue to use their ancestral knowledge to dig out a few grams of gold and to live in hope. This film reveals a very unusual village, a place of poverty which is at the same time exceptionally free, tolerant and intense. It tells the story of Inca de Oro as though in a chronicle of an approaching death.