카자흐스탄 다큐멘터리 〈아버지의 생강 쿠키〉연구

A study on the Kazakhstan documentary film <Gingerbread for Her Dad>

In this paper, the author analyzes the documentary film Father’s Gingerbread by Kazakh director Alina Mustafina, focusing on the development of the narrative. The reason director Alina Mustafina planned this film was a newspaper article about her grandmother. In addition, director Alina Mustafina and her mother contemplate and talk about their own identity. In other words, they are Kazakhstanis, but they do not know their native language and think and speak in Russian. After learning about her grandmother’s story about her great-grandfather and gingerbread, director Alina Mustafina decides to visit her great-grandfather’s grave in Poland to explore her own identity in earnest. director Alina Mustafina connects her current life in Kazakhstan and her great-grandfather’s past life in Poland by sprinkling soil from the two regions. In other words, director Alina Mustafina sprinkles soil brought from Almaty on her great-grandfather’s grave, and in front of her house in Almaty, she sprinkles soil from her great-grandfather’s grave. Alina's grandmother fulfills her lifelong dream of visiting her father's grave, and Alina's mother says that she should be happy for those who sacrificed themselves for her family. Director Alina returns to her home in Almaty, plants trees with her children, caresses a large old tree, and realizes that her hometown is Almaty. The lives of her ancestors scattered all over the place now intersect in one city called Almaty. Director Alina Mustafina has created a touching drama about a family by capturing the story of a very personal family in documentary form.