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Loan sharks harass Damir and his family, even to the point of writing “home for sale” on the exterior of their house. Damir desperately...

A young Kyrgyz woman is kidnapped and forced to marry. A drama about the desire for freedom in the clutches of a tradition.

Salia, an orphan, immediately after finishing her tenth year leaves her stepmother’s home, which she does not love, to a mining village to live...

Guljan's father, who is determined to marry his beautiful daughter to Musa, a scoundrel who has secured himself a position at the village...

The documentary explores the life of Klara Yusupzhanova, celebrated actress-turned-director, through the perspectives of her colleagues, husband, and...

Two elderly women from a remote mountain village must climb the stairs of a tall apartment building to visit a relative. As they make their way up,...

Episodic portrait of the absurdities of Kyrgyz village life in the summer.

After a brave young man disobeys the authorities by refusing to abandon his father, the old man covertly helps him by using his wisdom and wit.

The Great Silk Road is the name for a mountain trade route now identifiable only by train tracks; it is on these tracks that our film finds four...

In 1920s' Kyrgyzstan, the lives of three people intertwine over the course of a fateful night.

An amnesiac old man Zarlyk who after twenty-three years of ordeal in a foreign land, returns to his homeland. Events take place in a village in...

In a remote Kyrgyz village, Beshkempir, an infant foundling, is taken in by five older women and later adopted by a couple unable to bear children of...

Aktan Abdykalikov's simple, clear-eyed poetry finds an elemental form here. Two twin brothers are walking down the road carrying a pail of water,...

In 1957, Chinghiz Aitmatov, a young Kyrgyz student from the Moscow Literature Institute, destined to become one of the great writers of our time,...

Based on the story of Chingiz Aitmatov "The White Steamer". In a forest cordon, lost high in the mountains, an old man and an old woman and his...

The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines. He is the last link in a huge...

69-year-old Taalai has kept the image of his first love in his heart all his life, rejecting new feelings. But fate gives him a chance: a friend...

A story about the life of an old woman named Burma. Coarsened and hardened in soul, she becomes attached and imbued with maternal love for a strange...

When animals near a state-run oil field begin to exhibit bizarre symptoms, a fearless veterinarian embarks on a mission to uncover the cause and...