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Zagreb Film Festival
17. - 23. October 2010

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ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL
SC - Savska 25
10000 Zagreb
Croatia

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385 1 45 93 691

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Bingo
The Netherlands , 2009.

Directed by: Timur Ismailov
Script: Bastiaan Tichler, Timur Ismailov
Producer: Maarten van der Ven
Production company: Isabella Films
Cinematography: Lennart Verstegen
Editing: Annelotte Medema
Music: Sergiu Voloc
Cast: Sergiu Voloc, Dimitri Bilov, Mark Zak, Yasar Üstüner, Jacques Lucassen

Format: video
Running time: 28'

Synopsis
The young gypsy Bingo has left his native country Moldavia to find happiness in the Netherlands. Along with Sergei from Russia and Umar from Chechnya, he gets a job with a demolition firm. The three are illegal immigrants. Sergei and Umar become dispirited but Bingo enthusiastically follows his dream of earning enough money to build a house in his homeland. That is, until his optimism is sorely put to the test by an accident.

Directors Biography
Timur Ismailov was born in Baku (Azerbaijan) in 1977. In 2004 he was admitted to the NFTA (The Netherlands Film and Television Academy), faculty of screenwriting. After almost three years of studies he switched from screenwriting to directing fiction. In June 2009 he graduated as a bachelor of Film and Television from the NFTA with his film 'Bingo', which he both wrote and directed.

Location and screening schedule:
SC Cinema, Tuesday, October 20th at 9.00
SC Cinema, Tuesday, October 20th at 20.00



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