Set in rural Kazakhstan, Mariam (2019, PG, 75 minutes) is the story of a woman forced to be far more than she thought she could be.
After her husband vanishes, Mariam is caught in a bureaucratic limbo. Without his body, the government cannot offer her financial assistance, worsening the bad financial situation that she and her young children are already in.
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