Halbwissen

Halbwissen


11th of February 2026 – 8 p.m. Hackesche Höfe Kino

Film: TURGAUD

Debate Format: HALBWISSEN

In this format, the moderator knows nothing about either the evening’s films or the people on the podium – but is curious about both. A debate that challenges the invited guests to give particularly precise descriptions of the films and their own attitudes.

Debate guests include: Tolganay Talgat

In the presence of: Adilkhan Yerzhanov

TURGAUD

R: Adilkhan Yerzhanov, C: Berik Aitzhanov, Anna Starchenko, Dias Baituov, Kuantay Abdimadi, Sharip Serik, K: Yerkinbek Ptyraliyev, KZ 2025, 123 Min., kas./russ. OmeU – Weltpremiere

A film about outlaws that breaks the rules of storytelling. A secretive man arrives at the airport—he has a job interview with the leader of a criminal syndicate. He decides to protect the gangster against the threat of a mysterious woman and her child, who want him dead. Violence is inevitable, but it manifests in enigmatic ways. Yerzhanov is a master at staging genre cinema against genre conventions: TURGAUD is carried by glances, pauses, alienation, and musical interventions.

Adilkhan Yerzhanov

Film director and scriptwriter, born in 1982 in the city of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. He graduated from the Kazakh National Academy of Arts with a degree in Film Directing.

He is a two-time participant of the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival with the films THE OWNERS (2014) and THE GENTLE INDIFFERENCE OF THE WORLD (2018) and of the Venice International Film Festival with the films YELLOW CAT (2020), and GOLIATH (2022). YELLOW CAT (2020) was included in Kazakhstan’s long list for the International Feature Film category at the Academy awards. THE OWNERS (2014) was included in the catalogue of the “100 Best Asian Films”, published in 2015 by the Busan International Film Festival. In collaboration with the production company Tiger Films he directed the post-horror film CADET (2024) that has participated in a number of prestigious international film festivals and was officially selected as Kazakhstan’s entry for the Academy Awards in the category Best International Feature Film.