Marut Sarulu (1957, Talas) is a Kirghiz screenwriter and director. He studied philology at Kirghiz State University in Bishkek, where he lives, and then he continued at Moscow?s VGIK. He wrote and co-wrote six filmscripts, of which Storm Station/// (Buranny Polustanok, 1994, in coop. with Chingiz Aitmatov) won the Golden Camera award at the Berlin IFF in 1996, and the film The Adopted Son (Beshkempir, 1998, in coop. with A. Abdykalykov and A. Alisherov, co-prod. with France) won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno IFF, the Grand Prix at the Eurasia FF in Almaty and other international awards. His first feature film In spe was made in 1993, followed by My Brother Silk Road (Altyn Kyrghol, 2001), which was screened at the KV IFF in 2002 in the section East of the West. The film won numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at the 24th 3 Continents Film Festival and a Grand Prix at the International Asian Film Festival in Vesoul, France, in 2003.
MFF Karlovy Vary
