Yerken is nine years old and lives alone in a remote village in the mountains When his older brother returns after a long absence the young boys heart leaps with joy But it doesnt last long his older brother has become a cold and heartless person Serik Aprymov was born in 1960 in Kazakhstan and studied film at the Moscow Film School VGIK Along with other young directors from his country he became part of the new wave of Kazakh cinema At the Locarno Film Festival in 2004 he presented Okhotnik The Hunter in which a young boy suffers the contrast between the traditions of his people now on the decline and the progress of an increasingly urbanized new society
