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Courtesy of Loco Films There will be blood — and lots of it — in Kazakh director Aitore Zholdaskali’s solo debut, “Sicko,” a hard-boiled crime thriller about an internet scam gone wrong that plays this week at the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival.
Written by Zholdaskali, Kazybek Orazbek and Aldiyar Zhaparkhanov, “Sicko” follows a cash-strapped couple who hatch a get-rich-quick scheme to pay off their mounting debts. With the help of a crooked lab assistant, they fake a terminal illness and start a crowdfunder for “lifesaving” treatment that swiftly goes viral.
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