Harmony Lessons
Kazachstan/Germany/France 2013
Director: Emir Baigazin
120 minutes, Kazakh, Russian
Starring:
Timur Aidarbekov
Aslan Anarbayev
Anelya Adilbekova
Following a public humiliation in front of his classmates, a boy named ASLAN (13) falls ill with anankastia, a mental disease with persuasive passion for perfectionism.



The dirty criminal world of the school conflicts drastically with Aslan’s perfectionism and sense for beauty and purity. Aslan sees all the evil in the school gang leader BOLAT (13), who actually caused Aslan’s humiliation. Bolat is part of the established power system at school: he collects money from younger kids bitting them up severely. Out of good motives to rid his school of crime, Alslan decides to kill Bolat…