PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Eldar Shibanov, director of the film Mountain Onion.
Eldar Shibanov’s Mountain Onion is among the projects selected for the Biennale College program 2022. A comedy drama on parenthood, good or bad, and the perception of adult figure that kids have : A tour de force productive-wise but a good and formative experience, as Eldar tells us.
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’.
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Josh Siegel, film curator at MOMA, is one of the jury members at Giornate Degli Autori. His approach to this role as well as to his job is keeping an open mind and being receptive.