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- A young girl, Almagul, is studying to be a cameraman and goes to the front line to find her lover on the battlefield.
- Teenager Ruslan is a half-orphan who lives by the dried Aral Sea. When he learns that due to serious illness he has no more than 3 months to live, Ruslan decides to punish those responsible for the death of his beloved mother.
- Kazakh scientist and traveler, Chokan Valikhanov studied at St. Petersburg University and was well known in Russia. When sent to war against the Kazakhs, Valikhanov was forced to make a choice between Tzar and native land.
- The script of the film is based on real events related to the construction of Turksib (Turkestan-Siberia Railway).
- Talgat is 11 years old. He lives in absolute poverty in the suburbs of Almaty, Kazakhstan, along with his 6-year old sister, Gulya. Their parents spend their time drinking, while their uncle behaves like a 5-year old. In this desolate context, Talgat feels responsible for both his sister and uncle. The three of them are like three beautiful flowers fated to grow in the "trash-heap of life."
- Amidst the plains of the Kazakhstan steppes lives a mother and Eldon, the youngest of her five grown-up children. Whilst his four siblings have all married and left home, he and his mother live a simple, traditional existence. However when Eldon announces he has met the love of his life, his mother embarks on a tour of her four other children's homes in search of money for the wedding. As we follow the lovable but demanding mum through the four very different lives, we get a heartwarming family comedy that brilliantly contrasts modern-day and traditional life in Kazakhstan with humor and insight.
- A dramatic comedy about a pathological liar from Kazakhstan.
- Four poachers try to solve their existential and financial problems by catching specimen of endangered species.
- This is the story of the inn owner Hasim and his young employee Elken. They provide the travellers with horses on the vast isolated Kazakh Steppe. Hasim is silent and cold while Elken is chirpy and passionate. Despite the clash between their personalities, they begin to understand each other. As Elken learns more and more about the Kazakhstan traditions from Hasim, Elken's enthusiasm slowly melts Hasim's coldness.
- A tale of star-crossed lovers set on the lonesome plains of Kazakhstan.
- XVIII century, times of the Anrakai battle. A simple Kazakh guy, for the sake of a steppe beauty, goes with his friends to war against the Dzungarian invaders.
- In ordinary life, Raushan and Zharkyn would never have met: Raushan is an ambitious businesswoman, Zharkyn is a single father whose life takes place behind the grill of an inexpensive kebab shop. Fate brings them together in an organ transplant clinic. Raushan is diagnosed with kidney failure, and Zharkyn, who has lost his job and needs money, is forced to become a donor for Raushan. Before the operation, they will have to undergo a course in order to normalize the overall indicators of the body. After a while, the heroes get closer, but their goal remains the same - kidney transplantation. On the day of the operation, Zharkyn will face a difficult choice: a large sum that will ensure a carefree life for him and his daughter, or saving Raushan's life.
- The story of the athlete Arlan, who turned into a "crooked path" in search of easy money, and the girl Anel, who lost sight and parents in a terrible accident, but found the strength to live on. She lives in a world of dreams and hopes, until one day he meets him - Fate or retribution? Is it possible to build happiness on the wreckage of someone's fate? Perhaps salvation will be the redemption before the one that has become more expensive than life?
- Summer of 2015, living in Berlin, I had to leave my apartment of the Wedding neighborhood. The situation of finding an apartment in Berlin is not the easiest one and after having been rejected by many letting agents I just decided to: 'what a heck, I am going to Mongolia'. And took a camera with me to make my first documentary: A portrait of a Kazakh family in the mountains of western Mongolia subsisting from their herd as winter approaches. Their lifestyle makes us rethink what it means to live in a self-sufficient way, depending only on ourselves with just the barest of necessities. Theirs is a culture and tradition that makes us reconsider our own modern city lives. Having seen the results, i know I need to improve a lot but, it is a very nice beginning, of something big, beautiful.
- A married writer meets an imaginary lover in his dreams.
- A young shaman sets out on an arduous journey in search of a spiritual leader he believes can bring forth rain to save his clan. On the way, he met a mysterious monk whose knowledge of new technologies offers an alternative way to lives.
- This is the story of a six-year-old boy who lived in a formerly prosperous mining village, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the mine was closed and his father and mother were left without work. His father earns by selling bricks of abandoned houses. The boy lives in his fictional world. He dreams about school, but he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This diagnosis is made by a local doctor at the beginning of the film. This is the beginning of his drama. His mother hates and despises him, as if he is the culprit of her poor and unhappy life. Tender attempts by his father to protect him do not bring anything. In addition, his father is a drunkard. The boy has an older brother: smart and beautiful, the hope of the family. But unfortunately, the elder brother is tragically dying. This leads to the disintegration of the destructive family. A mother leaves her family and goes to another man. The boy remains with his father a drunkard for a long six years. The father, with a bribe, manages to send boy to a local school. The boy can not learn like all children. He dreams of studying in the city, living in an orphanage. Father understands that the boy is right. As the only son, there is no future with the father of a drunkard. The father calls the city, the sister of his ex-wife and asks her to take his son from him. She comes and takes her son ... Twenty years later, the son calls his father. He hears the voice of his son, who is already 32 years old.
- There is a plane flying from Korea to Europe, which has to make an emergency landing at a small airport somewhere in Kazakhstan. Apart from an international criminal as passenger there is also a group of talented children with their tutor from an international fund "Music without borders". Their lives get entangled with those of a local orphanage.
- Its story is about these two cultures, dissimilar to each other, but at the same time causing a genuine mutual interests of the countries. Each culture is unique, our friendly nations have a unique chance to learn more about each other.
- Fighting at school and unhappy at home with her pregnant mother and drunken stepdad, petulant, tomboyish teen Ainur (Kislova) quits high school, aimlessly bounces around Almaty.