2000 Songs of Farida

2000 Songs of Farida, also translated as Farida's 2000 Songs, is a 2020 Uzbekistani drama film directed by Yalkin Tuychiev. It is set in Central Asia in 1920. The film premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival on 17 October 2020, and was shown a couple of weeks later at the 2020 Busan International Film Festival. It was selected as the Uzbekistani entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but was disqualified owing to the correct format of the film not being submitted by the deadline. However, it was resubmitted for the following year. Plot The film is set in a rural location in Central Asia (present-day Uzbekistan) during the civil war following the 1917 Russian Revolution, which spread into the Russian colonies in the region. Set in 1920, the Bolshevik forces are closing in, close to victory in taking over the republic. The story centres on a landowner in a rural location, who already has three wives, and has his life disrupted when a fourth wife arrives at his home. He has married the new, younger wife because his other wives had not produced an heir for him, but he treats his wives poorly, and the women forge close relationships among themselves. The coming of the Bolsheviks means that women's roles in society will change.