DUSHANBE, December 16, 2013, Asia-Plus – A short movie “In Between” by Tajik filmmaker Sharofat Arabova has won a prize of the 3rd international short film festival that concluded in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on December 15.

Short movies from the CIS nations, Baltic nations and Georgia participated in the film festival in Bishkek and the Tajik movie was reportedly recognized the best in the “The Best Film” nomination.        

“In Between” is a film about migrant people, inhabiting Indian metropolis.  In spite of their origins they are all foreigners: someone more, someone less, being ‘strangers’ in the land they came to occupy to find human happiness.  The Russian dancer come model Marina, a South Indian guy Balan, Nepali teenage girl Ayushi and her mother struggle with the identities they belong to in the new  world stuck ‘in between’.

Ms. Sharofat Arabova graduated from Dushanbe Art College in 1997 before graduating in 2006 from Russian-Tajik Slavic University (RTSU) in Dushanbe.  She was scholarship holder of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).  Sharofat Arabova also graduated from the Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in February 2013.