Kazakh documentarian Segei Dvortsevoy won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for his first feature film Tulpan, an extraordinary ethnographic drama-cum-wildlife movie.

As comic as it is awe-inspiring, Tulpan is set in the vast emptiness of southern Kazakhstan's Hunger Steppe. Having completed his miltary service, a young nomad named Asa returns home to his brother-in-law's yurt with hopes of becoming a shepherd. But is such a a life any longer possible in the moder world? First, Asa must wind the affections of his beautiful neighbour, Tulpan.

Dvortsevoy gives us the bleak beauty of the steppe's windswept landscape: the endless sky, the camel stampedes, the raucous behaviour of a reggae-loving teamster, and one of the most remarkable animal birth scenes ever captured on film.

Tulpan will be released on UK DVD on 22nd March 2010 by New Wave Films at the RRP of £19.99. The only extra on board is a trailer.