Discoveries from Kazakhstan World Cinema

A film about the nature of southern Kazakhstan and a Dzhambul photojournalist who takes pictures of animals and flowers in his spare time.

The protagonist of the film is a homeless man. Before, his life was going well. Athlete, businessman. Money, trips to different countries. But everything changed in one moment. Valera became homeless. He lives on the heating main for more than 8 months. He eats what caring people serve on the street, and there is hope that he will still break out of this swamp.

One day in the life of a boy who wishes he could make an ancestral human dream come true and fly. With a machine he has made himself and with the strength of his own muscles, he intends to overcome the force of gravity.

Three generations of women embark on a journey to the grave of their great grandfather who fell in World War II in Poland. A road movie where each of them searches for her roots and self-identity in multinational Kazakhstan and beyond. Along the way, grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter visit the house that no longer belongs to them in Kazan, Tatarstan. All three of them were born in that country, but it’s no longer sovereign. Together they find the grave of the man who brings the three of them together. It’s an intimate story, but it’s also a story about all of us.

There are three characters in the film. Classics of science and culture of Kazakhstan. Mukhtar Auezov (1897-1961), Kanysh Satpayev (1899-1964), Alkey Margulan (1904-1985). They have a difficult fate. During the years of repression, they were persecuted by the authorities for studying the Kazakh folk epic, but they did not lose their humanity. They were friends and helped each other.

In the boundless Kazakh steppe, in a house on a hill, old man Agatai lives. His beloved wife died a long time ago, they had no children, there were no relatives left. But Agatai does not give up, his life is full of worries and labors. He takes care of his modest household and, as best he can, protects and protects the expanse of the steppe, which he considers his homeland. And another good deed is done by an old man: he adopts a child who ran away from an orphanage, who accidentally wandered into a house on a hill.

An eight year old boy has no mother and misses very much a female presence in his life. When a young nurse comes to take care of his ill father, the boy falls in love with her.

Little Zakir is given custody of a foal. The boy likes to argue, so he makes a bet with one of the village guys that he will win at the races. Safa's grandfather shares wisdom with him and helps train the horse. And the city girl Aigul helps them with cleaning and feeding. But pride will eventually do its dirty work.

A guy named Matilda dreams of becoming a secret agent. His boss, the prosecutor General, gives him a delicate task — to return his runaway daughter Safia from Dubai. To complete this task, Matilda takes her brother Sexu with her, who is not happy with his proposal. But they do not even suspect what awaits them during this rescue operation.

The office routine is ideal for a perfectionist Clerk: every day is the same and everything is on schedule. But in this atmosphere, it is becoming increasingly difficult for a Clerk to work, and a regular lunch break will change his outlook on life, work, and, most importantly, himself.

Ansar, helping his mother, who works as a janitor, clean the apartment building, is torn between his responsibilities and his desire to play soccer with his friends.

The date goes wrong, when the guy starts to have some stomach problems...

The plot of the film is based on real events that took place in Orphanage No. 4. A Korean plane crashed on the territory of Kazakhstan, and four Korean children ended up in a Kazakh orphanage.

Damir and Saule get into a piquant situation that obliges them to get married. On the way to organizing a solemn event, young people find themselves in the epicenter of endless events. Even pre-wedding stag and hen parties prepare a lot of adventures for future newlyweds. And on the holiday of their whole life, the main characters get double.

Remember your present day. Negotiations, meetings. And we also need to pick up the children from school. Now imagine that you are 10 years old now. And all these events happen to you at this age. And there is a world around you in which there are only children. Children are children. And the children are parents. A world in which no one grows old, gaining worldly wisdom. The world of the childhood period.

Alimzhan is a Kazakh roboticist. His next invention, the G-6, wins the robot competition in Brussels. In order to experiment working in rural conditions, he comes to his uncle Koshkarbai, from whom his wife left the day before Alimzhan's arrival. How will an ordinary villager Koshkarbai perceive the new invention of a scientist? After all, the robot looks very similar to a woman…

Ali is a modest young man from a middle—income family, making a marriage proposal to his beloved Asyl, the daughter of a wealthy official. Asyl agrees, as he loves Ali very much. Asyl's parents do not refuse their daughter and arrange an incredible kyz uzat toy (this is what the bride's send-off is called in Kazakhstan).Ali's parents are shocked by the scale of the event and decide to organize a wedding that will surpass the send-off. However, their desires exceed their financial capabilities, and they have to resort to tricks, including even deception, just not to lose face in front of Asyl's parents.

The 30s of the last century. Hungarian Istvan Magyar, a member of the International Communist International, is sentenced to death by firing squad. However, he is being sent from Moscow to the Kazakh steppe to atone for his "political guilt." He gets into the operational detachment of the OGPU of Karabai, which is engaged in the search and confiscation of Kulak cattle. The photographer of the Red Army detachment, Istvan Magyar, on a campaign across the winter steppe for the cattle of the poor, changes his views on the revolution. From the position of a European and a humanist, Istvan is stunned by the Holodomor and the brutality of the OGPU fighters. A Hungarian communist rebels and finds like-minded locals in Kubabas village. Together they are trying to fight the red tyranny.

Built within the 3D worlds of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Condemned 2: Bloodshot, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Saw II: Flesh & Blood, and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Pastinaca Videotapes Plantation’s machinima exploit each engine’s abrupt, uncanny atmosphere, creating bizarre collages that challenge any single interpretative move. Cold Cakes / 冰冷的蛋糕 / コールド・ケーキ is no exception and adopts the look of damaged evidence. Burnt-in timestamps, murky contrast, smeared textures, and VHS-like degradation give the film the texture of a copied, handled, and partially lost recording. Moving between domestic interiors, found footage, flickering images, bodily aftermath, cryptic imagery and open-world urban drift, the film assembles fragments rather than a linear narrative. Working through a text-first method that pairs written themes with archival and game footage, PVP reflects on suppressed histories, hoaxes, mockumentaries, and the erasure of inconvenient events.

The father who once ran for everyone's happiness is now left face to face with loneliness: Sabyrzhan raised four children, married them all, but now feels that his own life has remained empty. He is lonely, he is looking for a sincere interlocutor, a person who will listen to him. And then one day he unexpectedly meets his first school love - Zhaniya. Just a conversation... can change everything.

Introverted student Ira tries to find and take photos of all the mysterious graffiti rhinos in the city, while in reality she is desperately trying to find love. Her friends start a mission to help her find her true love.

An educational film for film students about the connection between two closely related art forms—painting and cinema. This film presents striking examples of painting's reminiscences in cinema: it collects famous examples of shot compositions by world cinematographers, drawing on the compositions of famous paintings. Of course, the main idea here is not to replicate or mechanically transfer a painting to the screen, but to convey through cinema the atmosphere and beauty of the painting that inspired the director.

Thirteen-year-old Arman is a spoiled rich kid who gets everything he wants. When his parents leave on a trip, he is sent to stay with his father’s struggling friend and his large family. Forced to live a very different life, Arman begins to learn valuable lessons, unaware that the entire situation was arranged by his parents to teach him responsibility.

In Kazakhstan, every house is protected by a guarding spirit called Domovoi. When the family leaves the house, it accompanies them. But when the family is separated, the ghost haunts them night after night in their dreams, always present, always protective. Childhood memories and family biography interweave in a magical, mystical atmosphere. A lot is gone and passed, while the garden remains as a silent witness to these stories.

The animated film "Journey to Kashgaria" was created to commemorate the 190th anniversary of the birth of the famous scholar Shokan Ualikhanov. The cartoon introduces children to history in an engaging and easy-to-understand way, based on one of the scholar’s greatest expeditions — "Journey to Kashgaria." The story begins with an 8-year-old boy named Azat who unexpectedly finds himself in the year 1858.

"Katpar" is an alternative history of the material culture of the region between the Great Steppe and the Tien Shan mountain chain (Ural-Mongol fold belt, Hercynian and Caledonian regions). The viewers' attention is drawn to art and research materials collected in one album, showing fictional artefacts of material culture in its various manifestations - from a nail to large-scale production buildings and high-tech machines. All artefacts demonstrate the particular material forms (fold-qatpar) manifested in this region over centuries as a tension between local nature and culture.

One day, a lonely fisherman rescues a mysterious girl who gives him everything he wants. But is he able to give her what she so desires?

Story about an unconditional love and friendzone

This is a film about a 21-year-old blind girl who wants to commit suicide, but she is saved by a strange girl and the main character finds salvation by leaving her parents' care for a new life. Disappointments in relationships with guys, gradual change of gender, outlook on life and search for your own business, work. A film about a girl with a disability who can give odds to any healthy person. Here the theme of lost youth, the struggle for life and the search for one’s home is revealed.

If someone knocked on your room?

An average teenager who lives in an ordinary city embarks on an adventure that takes him across three realms. The first world represents his house and close friends. The second depicts society and its battle for survival. He grew up in the community where he was viewed as inferior. His school experience wasn’t his best time as he was constantly bullied and underwent changes due to puberty. The proper sex education wasn’t provided by his school. The violence and indifference he witnessed in two worlds piqued his interest in discovering his own world of freedom and harmony. At one point, the pressure incoming from two worlds has finalized his decision to proceed his new journey into the third world.

A short film that consists for five intertwined story lines dealing with the themes of youth and sex in the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan. This short film with shot by a group of ambitious students from the Premier Film Academy during a six-week intensive summer course, under the guidance of Sarah Louise Wilson.

About the contradiction between a traditional poet father and a rapper son, which turns into a friendship story.

The history of the formation of the personality of the Kazakh Khan against the background of the rebellious events that unfolded in December 1825 in the imperial capital, St. Petersburg.

In 2018, three inexperienced climbers went on a two-week expedition to one of the most difficult mountains of the Tien Shan.

Work and life of the industrial hunters in Kazakhstan. Follow Nikolai and his team on the annual marmot hunting season where they have to hunt 600 marmots for the period of one month. And learn why this massive killing is essential for marmots' survival.

In Astana, a maniac taxi driver kidnaps, rapes and kills young girls. Will his latest victim, Asel, be able to escape this fate?

The husband decided to notify his wife that he was filing for divorce. However, she doesn't want to let him go.