Discoveries from Kazakhstan World Cinema

About how Bai and his nukers captured the father and mother of a little boy...

A young guy, convinced that money is the main thing in life, agrees to an adventure, while violating the law and conscience. A well-known doctor, a terminally ill patient begs to give her a lethal injection, offering everything she has in return. But constant quarrels with his son, who reproaches him for poverty, make him seriously think about the patient's proposal… An old man, a resident of a distant village, has been working as a gravedigger all his life. He loves his job and feels some sense of life in it, although his family broke up a long time ago because of it, and he still does not know about their future fate... Each of the Characters will make their own choice, and fate will put everything in its place. After all, the main thing is to find your path! The path to the clouds…

Due to the promotion, Judge Yerlan is moving to Astana with his wife, Aliya, who is expecting her second child. A couple buys an apartment in which something inexplicable is happening.

The story of the operative Antikor Kanat and his fellow investigator Bolat.

The film is about a brother and sister who struggle with life’s difficulties. Boys for the health of the mother do what they can. They do not choose the easy way and achieve everything honestly.

A family lives in a remote Kazakh village. There are five sons. The oldest, Aslan, becomes the father’s deputy in charge of all the work and delegating tasks to his younger brothers. Fair and humane, he sympathises with his siblings when they err, and accepts the father’s blame for them. One day Aslan takes the children to the river, a moment of happiness as the river is deep enough for a real swim. Since then, life is different. The children become more diligent in their daily chores, while the river turns into the focus of their lives.

Venus is forced to pay off her father's debts, and by chance she is offered a new job as a nurse for Aurora, who suffers from leukemia, but sincerely dreams of fulfilling her dream.

Jahan gathers a team and opens an agency that helps people solve various problems. Jahan's wife Aliya doesn't like this whole idea, and Jahan promises her to stop with it after he finishes his last case.

Aidar and Eldar are classmates whose lives have taken very different paths. Aidar has a wife and three children, but no stable job or income. He is a character who has lost his parents. Eldar works as the director of a large company. He has a wife, but no children. During a chance meeting, they argue about whose life is more difficult, each complaining about their own struggles. In the end, they end up wishing for each other’s lives. The next morning, they wake up to find that their souls have swapped bodies. As they search for a way to return to their own lives, they face the challenges of each other’s circumstances and begin to appreciate their own lives.

A deaf teenager decides to learn the guitar but faces a wall of prejudice.

Major Erbol commands the company. He is devoted to his work to the core, the best soldier. He is single, unmarried and lives only by work, military service is his vocation. Unexpectedly, Yerbol is fired and an ultimatum is put forward to Yerbol: he will be able to return to service only after he has worked at school as a teacher of NVP and a class teacher of the problematic 11 B.

First, Arthur comes up with and writes an article about a family with two wives, and then he finds himself forced to portray such a family in reality.

About the glorious son of the Kazakh people Nazir Tyuryakulov – a bright representative of the first wave of Soviet diplomacy.

Everyone's favorite children's camp, Auyl Camp, is the dream of every child in the country. But that's how it was before the pandemic: a coronavirus spoils all plans and the camp has to be closed. Fate separates Kairat, Bolat and Dastan. Only after some time Bolat and Dastan realize that the camp and raising children brought them joy. The friends decide to reunite and resume the work of the camp "Auyl Camp".

Two brothers plan to double-cross Antarctica by cars but the swiftly approaching polar night puts their lives in danger

The unsuccessful screenwriter and director Kanat Kozhanov, who is just starting to build his career, encounters a gang. The criminals are hiding from a lieutenant colonel from the department that fights against organized crime, so they have to make a movie of the main character and play the leading roles in it. The main goal of the bandits is to escape from prosecution, find the diamond and remove witnesses.

This is the story of a young woman, Aiganym, who was born into the Orthodox Kazakh family from the South of Kazakhstan. When she was a student at the college in the capital city of Kazakhstan, she gave birth to a boy. Right after giving birth, her family cursed her and rejected her and her newborn son because she was a single mother. After seven years, Timur, her son, was not able to accomplish his homework assignment “to draw a family tree”. Aiganym decides to return to her parents’ house, so that her son has a big family. Regardless of the fact that each time, she wants to return, her eldest brother beats her up, she keeps on returning home again and again…

A well-functioning criminal scheme for theft and sale of mirrors fails when one of the thieves kills the car owner who has caught him. All the city's police forces are dispatched to capture the gang. But the main witness to the crime turns out to be familiar with the murderer and plunges herself into painful doubts, without betraying him. The girl is unaware that the other witness to the murder is the leader of the "Mirrors" gang.

Kanat still lives in his mother-in-law's temporary home, which really hurts him. At this time, he receives an offer from Darkhan's classmate to move to auyl in the north under the program "Enbek, koshi kon". Kanat gladly accepts the offer and he and Aizhamal move in. After them, Erom and the Attic leave for the north.

A tale of star-crossed lovers set on the lonesome plains of Kazakhstan.

Three patients escape from the hospital in pursuit of their dreams. A touching road movie about love and male friendship.

Created on the basis of Joldybek’s personal archival materials, White Noise provides the spectators with the opportunity to plunge into the everyday life of a mother. An honest, head-on documentation of such an experience gives an eloquent idea of how difficult it is to raise a child.

25-year-old Merey lives a quiet but happy life in Almaty. By chance, she meets the charming Nurlan, who invites her to a birthday party in the mountains. She expects a simple celebration with new friends, but what ensues is an intense and tumultuous night that quickly spirals into a dark game of cat-and-mouse.

A new actress appears in one of the provincial theaters. Everyone wants to get her attention. But most of all, he is a very insecure simple prop of this theater. What would he be willing to do in order to be with her?

The main character Gabit is a representative of the criminal world. He got sick while in prison. The lungs cannot breathe on their own. He always carries an oxygen tank. At the clinic where he is being treated, they say they can't help him, it's too late. "Gaba" escapes from the clinic, wanting to spend the last moments of her life free.

Film animation explores the collaboration between an artist and artificial intelligence during political unrest.

A man divorces his wife, with the help of his friends.

Bakha, Sasha and Ruslan are best friends and they're constantly being bullied at school. Bakha wants to get stronger to fight hooligans and earn some respect in the neighborhood.

Kazakhstan, January 2022. Protests are shaking the entire country. Five ordinary people become caught up in these events and face difficult life choices. Their stories come together, showing how one person’s drama turns into a national tragedy.

Our country has celebrated the 20th anniversary of independence. Over the years, a whole generation of people who proudly call themselves Kazakhstanis has grown up. But 20 years ago, when everything was just beginning, this generation was born and raised by women who went through many difficulties of that difficult time. They raised their children, relying only on themselves and their own strength, and carried the future of the whole country on their fragile shoulders.

The boy wanted to become a hero by defeating a terrible dragon.

A team of "black diggers" goes in search of a golden statue hidden deep in the mountains. The guys are joined by a local gamekeeper, who promises to show them the way to the treasure. However, the further the characters advance, the more terrible things happen.

A magic jug with a genie inside it falls into the hands of a bank employee. An insecure guy does not know what to wish for, because he wants to change so much in his life. But, as always, with great opportunities comes great responsibility.

When two strangers, a young man working in a fast-food cafe, and an older woman of a higher social status, meet one night, they don't know that it takes only several hours to travel from infatuation to a bitter finale.

Nurzhan and Salima dream about grandchildren. Their son, Baurzhan wants to get married for love but his choice, Aizhan is engaged with another guy and she doesn't want to upset father.

A schoolgirl gets targeted by her malicious music teacher, who possesses a mystical kobyz that allows him to assault his victims from a distance.

In the world of business negotiations and urban hustle, Ulbolsyn notices the colors of life in the most unexpected places. Words at the conference, a chance encounter at the store, warm conversations with Dimash at the café—each moment brings her joy and an awareness of the value of time. In the evening, surrounded by music and aromas, she realizes that happiness is now. But a late-night phone call reveals secrets, prompting her to ponder the meaning of every moment.

The employees of a provincial café mistake fugitive friends for important guests. A dynamic crime comedy.

How do children with disabilities who have been abandoned by their parents live and what do they face? The authors of the film will show the life of children with disabilities on the example of those who live in one of the special boarding schools. They will tell you how children get there, why their closest people refuse them, where they go after being evicted from the boarding school and why the state's help is not enough for them.

A young police officer Batyrbek fails an important operation. Without thinking for a long time, the authorities transfer him to the village as a simple district officer. Batyrbek is bored in his new place and he dreams of being transferred back to the city. But to do this, he needs to solve the crime. Coming up with different schemes, Batyrbek and his friends discover that something is really wrong in the village.

When someone is killed inside a nightclub, an experienced detective vows to put the murderer behind bars. Make choices that affect the narrative and experience several different endings in this blood-red interactive movie.

13-year-old Batyr wants to spend more time with his grandmother, but she's dead. He encounters pressure about the wrong act when the cattleman comes to them with milk.

A boy's dreams revolve around one particular lake. His dreams seem as if they are about to come true when he sets off for the lake with his father. However, their journey is riddled with challenges and the boy's father struggles to keep his promise.

Experimental interpretation of Anton Chekhov's story "A conversation between a drunk and a sober devil".

A detective is investigating the murder of a middle-aged man, in which the man's young wife is suspected, but something hints to us that not everything is so simple.

A significant group of Far Eastern Koreans were deported to Karatal district of the Taldykorgan region. Those who arrived later than other nations mastered the Korean language, and it became the language of interethnic communication along with Russian. In this film, four heroes of different nationalities who masterfully owned the mar Koreas.

A disadvantaged area in the south of Kazakhstan is isolated due to coronavirus restrictions. Viktor Schmidt, once a resident of besieged Leningrad, many years later finds himself in a situation of blockade again.

A lonely figure finds an elevator in the middle of an empty city. Who knows where that elevator will lead it...

Tahir, a young wheelchair user, dreams of becoming an actor and rehearses Hamlet's monologue "To be or not to be." At the same time, he sees himself in the image of the real Prince Hamlet, with whom he is debating, trying to find an answer to the question of whether he should live or die.

Windy steppes of Kazakhstan. Starving people ravenously eat donkeys and their weaker comrades. Frantic, raw, gripping, and cannibalistic western inspired by testimonies of the historical Great Famine of the 1930s. Ruthless Jupar with her two boys Jolan and Boshay runs for survival to reach her childhood village with hopes to find living relatives. A mother with no tears to cry endures rains, sandstorms, feverish famine, poisoned crops, hungry vultures, rotten meat, and greedy betrayals. Jupar will have to steal, cut throats, and protect her and others’ children to witness fates worse than death.

A class of schoolchildren, sometime in the future, go on a virtual tour of the 1930s to learn about the famine that caused the death of millions at that time. One of the boys finds himself more drawn into the tale than he would have expected. The film blends actual history with a touching time-defying friendship in the vein of Tom’s Midnight Garden.