Harvest Moon

Each September Bolot Tagaev and his family practice a centuries old tradition harvesting walnuts in one of the oldest walnut forests in Kyrgyzstan Over the course of a single season director Zaheed Mawani gracefully captures delicate sequences such as a child interacting with a snake or sacks of walnuts being laid gently across an attic bed Stories attached to the forest are told and retold over the fire at night adding a mythic dimension