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- A historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country's three warring tribes.
- On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It's dry, dusty, and windy; too many lambs are stillborn. Against this backdrop, Asa, a dreamer who's slight of build and recently finished with a stint in the Russian Navy, tries to establish a life on the steppes. He, his friend Boni, and Ondas call on Tulpan, the only single girl in the area. The men talk to her parents while she listens out of sight. Her answer and Asa's later trips to talk to her form an arc of hope against the harsh land. Is this the place of Asa's dreams? What about the other lambs?
- Thirteen-year-old Aisholpan trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her nomad family to become an eagle huntress.
- This is the story of the life of the great queen of of the steppe - legendary Tomiris. She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of close people and unite the Scythian/Saka tribes under her authority.
- Fifteenth century. In the vast expanses of Eurasia for several centuries, the descendants of the great Genghis Khan have created their own and crushed the alien states. One of them is the legendary Abulkhair Shaibani, who usurped power in the White Horde. The two legitimate heirs to the throne, Kerei and Zhanibek, call the part of the nomadic tribes to leave the hard ruler. After migrating from the far west of Desht-i-Kipchak to Mogolistan in Zhetysu, they revive their ancient shanyrak Ak Orda, the Kazakh Khanate. The first khan elected a direct descendant of Jochi and Urus Khan, Sultan Kerey. Here it is, the promised land when you can live peacefully and freely. But the enemies are trying to strangle the fragile Kazakh khanate even in the cradle and bloody battles, severe trials, the bitterness of losses and the joy of victories await them.
- Tamara searches for her missing son in a violent town. She hires a morally questionable ex-detective to find him. His methods are cruel but she is determined to find her son whatever the cost.
- Diamond Sword is a large-scale historical drama of first Kazakh Khans, which BBC called "Kazakh Game Of Thrones". The action takes place in the XV century, and the plot demonstrates the key events in formation of Kazakh statehood under the leadership of Khans Zhanibek and Kerey.
- A portrait of five brothers living on a farm on the Kazakh plains, where the sudden intrusion of the modern world brings corruption, temptation and deceit.
- A group of candidates undergoes trials to earn the maroon beret (special forces traditional hat). There are three friends among them who try to stick together - Ruslan, Kaysar, and Aibyn. Ruslan and Kaysar are taking the tough exam for the first time, while for Aibyn, it's his third attempt. Each of them dreams of joining the National Guard special unit, but only one of them is destined to make it to the final.
- This is a survival story - a Hemingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' as if written for our days.
- A boy is killed in an aul (Kazakh village). Detective Bekzat wants to end an investigation quickly: a crime perpetrator is already found by local police officers after all.
- Soviet Kazakhstan, 1930s, a time marked by Stalin's rapid collectivization of farms and the most brutal famine the modern world had ever seen. Local gravedigger, Isatay, must face a difficult choice.
- The story of Kasym Khan, whose time of coverage is considered to be the heyday of the Kazakh Khanate
- A gripping coming-of-age film that follows a group of teenagers as they navigate the challenges of growing up and chasing their dreams in a tough world. As they navigate the complexities of adolescence, the boys find themselves confronted with a variety of obstacles, from family problems and peer pressure to poverty and violence. Some turn to music as a means of expression, others are tempted by the allure of fast money and easy thrills, flirting with a life of crime. But no matter what path they choose, they are united by a deep-seated desire to succeed and find their place in the world.
- A universal story about the freedom of the human spirit and the struggle against slavery and despotism, about love, loss and betrayal. It is seen through the eyes of simple Kazakh kids and teenagers.
- For her job as an influencer, she wears orange and a broad smile. The "Happiness" brand is her doctrine, but her home is a dark place where brute force has ruled for years. This film shows us what it costs to escape the trap of misogyny.
- Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team.
- The story of several generations of a Kazakh family from the 1930s to the present time, the film traces the most momentous events in the history of Kazakhstan through war, separation and the determination of the clan to remain united.
- Lonely Kazakh teenager Aslan is bullied at his new school. He prepares himself for a bloody revenge on the school bully Bolat.
- After her father's untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic countryside life for the cruel city. She has to find money to pay off the large family debt that her father left behind, in order to save her mother from jail. Friends since their village childhood, her loyal, but penniless admirer Kuandyk follows her just to make sure his sweetheart is safe. Saltanat's uncle introduces her to a possible groom, who promises to pay off her family's debts. But Saltanat's hopes are dashed, when she discovers that the men in this city don't keep their word. When Kuandyk tries to help Saltanat get the money through other ways, he ends up finding himself in more trouble than he bargained for. Although life keeps dealing them bad hands, Saltanat and Kuandyk never give up, no matter what the odds.
- Following an old nomadic tradition 'bauryna salu', a boy Yersultan, was given after his birth to be raised by his grandmother. When he turns twelve, his grandmother dies and he has to move back with his family which he barely knows.
- 70% of indigenous population of Kazakhstan died during the Great Famine, artificially imposed on people in the 1920s by the Bolsheviks. Overcoming blind fear of death and despair, an eagle hunter Turar tries to save his family.
- This historical epic charts political intrigue among the Kipchaks, a confederation of tribes on the steppes of central Asia, before they were overrun by Genghis Khan.
- A film director takes to the road on a trip to visit his sick mother and we follow his thoughts and human encounters along the way.
- Didar is an unrecognized poet who contemplates a rebellious 19th-century poet, executed by the authorities.
- Windy steppes of Kazakhstan. A starving people voraciously eat donkeys and their weaker companions. A frenetic, raw, passionate and cannibalistic Western inspired by accounts of the historic Great Famine of the 1930s.
- Tolik has a third child on the way, yet nothing else is going right for the breadwinner. Shuttling between bread deliveries and family crises, Tolik struggles to find the words to match his precarious circumstances.
- Akzhol just turned 22. Little does he differ his agemates: just like them he wants to live a full life. Though, because of an incomplete higher education, he has to work as a taxi driver and he hardly makes both ends meet. Akzhol once meets his lecturer who offers him take exams on all years he had missed and resume studies. This offer becomes a true gift for Akzhol, although life always puts him in tough dilemma. Every choice he makes reflects on not only his own life, but lives of his young sisters to whom he is the father and the mother at once.
- Akzhol has just left the orphanage. He embarks on a mission to find his father and turns to petty theft to make ends meet. Along the way, he discovers he has a brother, Dalen, who was adopted by wealthy parents.
- Living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a young man is preparing to become a bus conductor. One day, in between wandering the city streets, and going to the movies, he makes the acquaintance of a female student.
- In a modest family of a fishing village, the father of the Kadyr family dies. He is drowned on the boat of the local wastrel Makosh, who threatens the wife of the deceased that if they do not repay the debt for the sunken ship. The widow Sarah tries to find a way out of the situation, but her plans fall apart with the arrival of Kadyr's brother.
- A transposition of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the modern day city of Almaty.
- Aliya is a 36-year-old Kazakh lesbian woman. Aliya for the first time in her life tried to play the Green Card Lottery and won. Now she cannot decide whether to leave Kazakhstan or stay. On the one hand, Aliya is tired of the stagnation, corruption, dictatorship of the Kazakh society, she wants changes in her life. But on the other hand, she is afraid of uncertainty and to start all over again in a foreign country.
- Madina, a single mother whose day-to-day routine is a battle for survival with lack of confidence in the present and lack of hope in the future.
- May 1945. In a small town of the province of Kazakhstan, far from the front of the war draws to a close, young Vladik and Mary, and Akezhan, a boy a bit "largest are among the displaced. It is through the eyes of the latter, his feelings and his reactions, that we enter into intimacy with the different characters and their stories.
- In a godforsaken Kazakh village four adolescent teenagers try to find their place in the world.
- A young couple from southern Kazakhstan plan to get married. But according to the local tradition, the groom ought to steal the future bride.
- In Zhanash, a far-away village nestled on the Kazakh Steppe, 400 kilometers away from Almaty - and another three kilometers by foot on a dirt path off the main road - Mariam (Meruert Sabbusinova) lives with her husband and four young children in a home without light and water. One winter day, her husband disappears without a trace. Because there is no body, he cannot be officially declared dead. As a result, Mariam cannot receive state financial support. A very reserved person who buries her emotions deep inside, Mariam, alone, must take survival into her own hands. The experience changes her. Then, just as everything has begun to fall into place, her husband suddenly returns as if nothing has happened and expects life to continue as before.
- Kyz-Zhibek decides to commit suicide after she hears that her lover has been killed in a duel.
- Surreal, impressionistic concert of classical opera pieces performed by several retired Soviet opera divas.
- Wrongly accused of her husband's murder, a woman returns from prison to her village in search of her son and justice.
- The story of two brothers who, after the death of their father, begin to hunt for robberies. They are noticed by an athletics coach who came from the city to the village to select talented youth. The brothers face difficult trials, and a tragic incident changes their lives. One of them will have to defeat the world champion in the marathon.
- The hardships encountered by Aisha, a young Kazakh singer, whose dream is to sing in Paris.
- Socio-criminal drama that tells a story of friendship of men from a ghetto of Taraz city. The meeting with the angry and armed son of the local bandit becomes the key turning point in lives of three individuals and their relatives.
- This story is about human relationship and drama that takes place on the border of Tajikistan with Afghanistan. It tells about heroin traffic and ongoing military conflicts, hidden interests of governments, friendship, love and loss. Azamat is an ordinary guy from Kazakhstan who makes an uneasy decision to enlist to border patrol after the loss of his brother. He takes off with three young guys from his platoon and go through the moments of hardship, suffer and beauty fortunate enough to understand the meaninglessness of the war and how fragile life can be. Together they fight the common enemy - the heroin. They are too young to take this task, they are fearless to defend their country and innocent lives, but heroin does not have borders.