Films

The local police gives the boy named Sapar to his friend for the summer time in order he grazed sheep as corrective work for stealing chickens. In the…

The film covers the events that took place in a small Kazakh village from the 1930s to the mid 1950s. The steppe is scourged by…

25 year-old John, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12 year-old sister Aliya, are forced to leave their house in the Kazakh city of…

Harmony Lessons is set in a small Kazakhstan village, where Aslan, a thirteen-year-old boy living with his grandmother is a diligent student, bullied by an…

A story inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea but set instead on the endless earthen ocean of the central Asian steppe,…

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2008 Asa’s dream is to become a sheepherder and have a flock of his own. We are introduced to Asa, handsomely…

Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile…

Winner, APSA NETPAC Development Prize, 2013 Two brothers and their little sister are thrown out of their flat because they haven’t paid the rent. The…

A dramatic comedy about a pathological liar from Kazakhstan.

12-year-old Olzhas is the eldest son of a family who live in the foothills of Tian Shan, the large span of mountain ranges that cross…

When a boy is murdered in a Kazakh village, Detective Bekzat wants to wrap up the inquiries quickly. And why wouldn’t he? After all, the…

Ayka just gave birth. She can’t afford to raise a child. She has no job, debts to be paid, not even a room of her…

A family lives in a tiny Kazakh village. The oldest child, Aslan, is 13 and his four brothers grow up regarding him with admiration. Kind…

After her father’s untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic and sheltered countryside life for the cruel city. In order to save her…

Sveta – a deaf woman faces a very difficult life challenge. She is in danger of losing her job as a foreman in a sewing…

Didar is a poet chained to a day job in a small newspaper. In the age of mass consumption, very few care about poetry. Reflecting…

In accordance with the old nomadic tradition of bauryna salu, Yersultan was given at birth to his grandmother so that she could raise him. He…

During the famine genocide of the 1930s in the Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, gravedigger Isatai picks up bodies and takes them to a mass…

Akzhol, having just left an orphanage, is convinced that his father is alive and starts looking for him. Beginning his new and independent life, he…