The Seventh Month
Aizada Amangeldy / Central Asia – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic / Kyrgyz Republic / Kyrgyz / 15 minutes / 2025
Seven months ago, Mira underwent a serious operation – her uterus and ovaries were removed. In a society where motherhood is considered a woman’s ultimate purpose, she cannot reveal this to either her parents or her husband’s parents. To keep her family together and escape judgment, Mira resorts to deception: she wears a fake belly, pretending to be pregnant while their child grows in the womb of a surrogate mother. But as the “birth” approaches, the pressure intensifies.
Cast & Crew:
Director – Aizada Amangely
Producer – Nazgul Dolotkeldieva
Cinematography – Bolsunbek Taalaibek
Editing – Ulukmyrza Ravshanbekov
Sound – Spartak Shulgin
Music – No music
Cast – Medina Alymkulova, Kunduz Djaparova, Tolgonay Kaskembaeva, Belek Arabaev
Director’s Bio
Aizada is a dramaturgist and filmmaker from Kyrgyzstan. She is an alumni of the Dramaturgy program at VGIK in Moscow, Russia, where she was the student of Cannes awarded scriptwriter Yuri Arabov.
Aizada has written fiction screenplays for major studio productions in Kyrgyzstan and has received both national and international recognition for her work. Aizada is the only female screenwriter to have won the Best Script award at the Bishkek International FF, the leading festival in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia.
She is a resident of the Writers’ House Peredelkino, a Nipkow Programm and Berlin AiR Fellow, an IDFAcademy alumni.
