With Cannes Film Festival kicking off in just a few days time, many dramas will be amongst the line-up, but today we’re exclusively debuting the first trailer for a promising black comedy. Hailing from Kazakhstan, Adilkhan Yerzhanov‘s The Owners will be premiering in the Special Screening section at the festival and depicts routine injustice growing to unexpected cruelty, against a background of general indifference. Described as Kaurismaki‘s Leningrad Cowboys meets Borat, check out the trailer below, along with the official synopsis.
25 year-old John, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12 year-old sister Aliya, are forced to leave their house in the Kazakh city of Almaty. By luck their mother left them a house in a remote village, where they plan to prepare their comeback. But the house appears to be on the wish list of the District Officer’s alcoholic brother, who has lived there illegally for 10 years. The police will do everything in their power to make the brothers’ lives in the village impossible.
The Owners will premiere at Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, May 18th.