BFF 2014: “A Portrait of Orozbek”
Bulgarian premiere of the movie – “A Portrait of Orozbek”, Tajikistan, 2014, Matthew Traver, 36’ – premiere in Bulgaria
A wash would be welcome. God knows I needed it; knees with a dirty black shine to them, a thick growth of itchy stubble matted across my face and my hands cracked and broken, with a mysterious sick-grey hue to them that had developed over the past few weeks here at high altitude. No, a wash and shave would be very much appreciated, although where exactly our host Orozbek the hunter was taking us to do it – and why we’d chosen to travel atop a truck laden with freshly-cut grass to get there – I still couldn’t quite figure out. But that was Central Asia encapsulated; you never really could tell what ramshackle road blind circumstance was leading you down, not – at any rate – until it was too late to back out.
