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Convenience Store

 
Michael BORODIN  
Russia, Slovenia, Turkiye 2022 107min DCP Color Fiction 15Korean Premiere
Schedule
Code Date Time Theater Info Ticket
273 2023. 04. 29 20:00 MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 9
HKE15
533 2023. 05. 02 17:00 MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 10
HKE15
856 2023. 05. 05 19:30 MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 1
HKE15
Overview

Mukhabbat, an Uzbek immigrant, works at a convenience store on the outskirts of Moscow. Like the rest of the immigrants at the store, she is forced to work without getting paid and endure mental and physical abuse until she overcomes her fear and takes her fate into her own hands.

Review

At first glance, a store on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, looks just like any ordinary 24-hour convenience store. Still, illegal migrant workers from Central Asia live in small rooms in its basement. The owner exploits them like slaves by using their desperate circumstances. Even sexual abuse takes place openly. The protagonist, Mukhabbat, endures this life under agonizing circumstances to protect her child, to whom she gave birth in there. She eventually escapes to Uzbekistan, her home country, which is no better than where she was. Director Michael BORODIN from Uzbekistan came up with the idea for this film from an actual event in a convenience store in Russia. However, Convenience Store doesn’t show any sign of exposing or accusing the assailant. Instead, the film employs a strategy to shake viewers by portraying the exploitation of migrant workers and their lives in a stifling rhythm. (MOON Seok)

CREDIT
  • DirectorMichael BORODIN
  • ProducerArtem VASILYEV, Aleš PAVLIN, Andrej ŠTRITOF, Diloy GÜLÜN
  • ScreenplayMichael BORODIN
  • CinematographyEkaterina SMOLINA
  • Production DesignVladislav OGAY
  • MusicAleksey POLYAKOV
  • EditorAlexandra PUTSYATO, Ekaterina TRUBA
  • SoundIgor GLADKIY
CastBukhara SANZYSBAY, Lyudmila VASILYEVA, Tolibzhon SULEIMANOV
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DIRECTOR
Michael BORODIN 
Born in 1987, Toytepa, a small town near Tashkent. He started shooting films at the age of eighteen, and moved to Moscow to study filmmaking where at first he led the life of an illegal immigrant. Convenience Store is his fifth film.

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