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Eleven-year-old Jabai, who sells mountain onions on the highway with his sister, catches his trucker idol having sex with his mom. Jabai and his sister Saniya then embark on a journey from their small village in Kazakhstan to China, to obtain the only thing that will save their father and help him become a strong man, the “Golden Viagra”. Part family drama, part road movie, Mountain Onion is a feel-good film that says you first need to listen to your inner voice and only then to others.

ELDAR SHIBANOV screened his short film Sex, Fear and Hamburgers at the 2018 Venice Film Festival. Together with Yulia Levitskaya, the Mountain Onion project was a finalist at the Biennale Cinema College in 2021. The film premiered in the Horizons Competition at the Venice Film Festival the following year.