British Director Captures Life of Central Asian Tortoise in One of World’s Harshest Landscapes

British Director Captures Life of Central Asian Tortoise in One of World’s Harshest Landscapes

The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – Would you spend nearly two weeks following one of the slowest creatures on Earth? British director Saxon Bosworth did exactly that, traveling to the Ustyurt Plateau in western Kazakhstan to capture the life of the Central Asian tortoise, a creature whose entire visible world unfolds in just a few months each year. The film, called “TASBAQA,” which means…