The Singapore Biennale 2008 is showing Beket (Bus Stop,1995), directed by both Abdykalykov and Abdyjaparov. This film is finely composed and paced, with a cynical sense of the comedy of human relationships. Despite a soundtrack of amplified natural sounds, it is essentially a black and white silent film. A small group of people waits at a lonely roadside bus stop on a freezing cold day that overlooks a field or a frozen lake. Beyond that we see the grey shape of what could be a city, or a forest.

Fiction, 27 min, black & white, 2000, Kyrgyzstan Written and directed by Aktan Abdykalykov, Ernest Abdyjaparov Director of photography: Hassan Kydyraliev ABOUT An old man, a boy, a woman and a man are waiting for the bus at a godforsaken bus stop in the middle of nowhere... AWARDS Jury prize for the best short film at Anapa IFF (Russia) Jury prize at Cottbus IFF (Germany)

Asema, a Kyrgyz city girl visiting her boyfriends family in the countryside, is mistaken for a villager and accidentally kidnapped by Sagyn, a young shepard who was too shy to ask the young girl for marriage.