Discoveries from Kyrgyzstan World Cinema

A film presented by university students of a boy, Asyl who delivers beef and mutton to meat markets in the early morning, then dons his good clothes and goes to school.

The process of recycling garbage at the Bishkek landfill - difficult, unsightly, often carried out manually - is shown in the film through the stories of people working on it, represented by different social groups - from homeless people to residents of a nearby village.

A Muslim man, who lives by the rules of sharia law, is challenged on his person and his faith when a highly pregnant woman needs his boat, his ores and his help, in order to cross a river and reach the hospital in the big city.

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Kyrgyz horror film

Newly discovered and restored 1991 Bakyt Karagulov film.

Sequel to the hit horror flick.

The four-part documentary film "President" chronicles Sadyr Zhaparov's journey from opposition figure and prisoner to the head of state, highlighting key events of recent years.

A young man visits his grandmother in a quiet village to tell her he is leaving abroad. Burdened by guilt and hesitation, he struggles to confess that he may never return.

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Carla who is visually impaired starts to cross the grassland of Kyrgyzstan with her father.

For several years now, Galina Petrovna has not left her house in Mayevka Village near Bishkek. There is a cozy blue house with fish garland in which a lonely grandma Galina tells us a story about her ghostly husband who died fifteen years ago. Every day she takes care of the house and even runs a small business. She sells chicken eggs and does laundry for some of her neighbors in her own washing machine. In a house full of pets, Galina Petrovna tells us about her alcoholic husband, pain and a new life after his death.

A film tapestry that weaves together different Kyrgyzstan’s colonial and postcolonial histories as well as the filmmaker’s personal biography. Gulzat Egemberdieva juxtaposes home videos, telephone conversations, Soviet archival footage and ethnographic sketches in order to construct a visual dialogue between Kyrgyz people of different generations and cultural backgrounds. The title refers to the sense of dislocation created by successive waves of migration and the imposition of national borders onto a once-nomadic people in the Pamir mountains.

Film opens up the door to a local young group of friends, who were raised in a big city, influenced by a western pop culture and have spoken Russian their whole life. It unveils the topic of self identity and honesty between our inner and outer selves.