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The film of director Nozim Tolakhojayev, which tells about a bad person who, as a leader of a satanic sect, deceived people and used them in his own interests.

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Ubaydullo and his son Javohir live in a village at the foot of the mountain. His grandfather was overthrown by the Soviet regime, and his father was exiled to Siberia as an enemy of the people. Ubaydullo prays, tends his sheep, and tries to protect his son from the outside world as much as possible; he forbids him from going to university and joining the army. But his son rejects his father's overprotectiveness. Meanwhile, Javohir's girlfriend marries another man. One day, Javohir brings a television home, but his father smashes it and buries it. Javohir secretly enlists in the army. Meanwhile, Ubaydullo marries a blind girl named Zaynab, and after some time, they have a daughter. Javohir returns from the army with various bad habits (addictions). His father, Ubaydullo, buries his son to re-educate him. The film ends with the family living happily ever after.

After Munisa's parents divorce, she discovers that one of her boots is left at her father's house and secretly goes to her own house.

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Two barbarians in the desert find a stranded white woman and regard her as their property. A strange and exotic parable that presents a tragic three-cornered relationship in a politically incorrect and ironic way.

Javohir, Khurshid, Baxtiyor, and Hamdam return as fathers, facing new challenges in raising their children.

Doniyor has the supernatural power to heal seriously ill people with incurable pain. Thanks to his ability, not a single sick person remained in his village. Shuhrat Shodmonov, a big businessman from Tashkent, comes to him and asks him to treat his granddaughter.

The sea vanished without any trace. Where the waves had once splashed, the bottom is cracked from the heat. Here, at the same depth, people stayed to live. An old fisherman, who is trying to escape from the past. The border guard, who changed his boat to jeep for patrol the state border. Former official, who because of other people's machinations, has lost everything - The sea is gone, but hope remains that it will return. And with it returns hope to find love for the neighbor .

One mother-in-law and seven daughter-in-laws. Traditions of one Uzbek family.

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The plot tells the story of the Turkestan Autonomy, the unrest in the Bukhara Emirate, the Tashkent plague uprising, and the Andijan rebellion. The film portrays Behbudi’s interactions with prominent Jadid thinkers and supporters of that era, such as Abdurauf Fitrat, Abdulla Qodiriy, and Ismail Gaspirali. It concludes with Behbudi's sentencing to death.

According to a central Asian tradition, the younger brother is responsible for the wife of his brother in his absence. So 13-year-old Jamshed is too. Lack of work made his brother leave for the West to earn money. Jamshed does what he should do, even though he dreams of things that boys of his age much prefer to do. He regards his sister-in-law and his duty to her as a burden.

A beautiful young woman has finished her studies abroad and returned to her childhood home. The main character is an ordinary guy who appreciates his friends and the streets of his beloved Tashkent more than anything else in life. Fate bumps these two together, after which they have to find a common language.

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The story follows a group of close friends whose ordinary lives take a hilarious turn after a misunderstanding spreads news that one of them has died. As they reunite to mourn, they uncover unexpected truths, test their friendship, and face a series of funny and touching moments that reveal the true meaning of loyalty and companionship.

The feature film Hayatda tells the story of a scientist who, after the death of his only child, adopts a child with the ability to heal people and remains true to his principles until the end of his life.

A story about two brothers - Bakhrom and Umid. Older brother Bakhrom is ready to give his life for his younger brother. After the death of his parents, caring for his younger brother fell on his shoulders. He cooks for him, wakes him up to the university and pays for his studies. You can only dream of such a caring brother. Bakhrom himself is not married, he lives with his younger brother in the same apartment. He is famous as the best auto mechanic, has his own auto repair shop. Umid dreams of introducing his older brother to his teacher, whose name is Nazira. She is beautiful and clever, and also young. Once he still manages to introduce Bakhrom and Nazora. For their short meeting Nazora manages to please Bakhrom. However, the whole idyll is spoiled by an acquaintance with a strange guy, whom Bakhrom helped to fix the car.

Since Fatima and Zuhra's brother did not come home one day, Fatima is worried and goes outside to look for him. Then, the street thugs kidnap and rape Fatima. Fatima commits suicide.

The plot of the film is built around a complex crime. As the main character investigates the events, each piece of evidence leads him not to the truth, but to false clues. Who is friend, who is enemy?

The story of the desire, love and harmony of a young man dreaming of becoming a pilot

1989. The former Captain of the Soviet Army Saidulla lives alone in a small house. His son lives in the same village but he does not associate with his father and does not permit the grandson to have contact with his grandfather. He often has a vision: he is visited by an old army friend. He looks exactly the same as he saw him alive for the last time – in the uniform and with an automat-ic gun. Once during a medical check-up Saidulla learns that he has cancer. He does not have much time left but he has to solve the most important problems: provide water-supply for the school, make it up with his son and pay a visit to his former colleague.

The story of Yalangtush Bakhodir, a Samarkand commander, politician and ruler of the 17th century. Under his leadership, majestic structures were erected that changed the appearance of Samarkand, and it was he who initiated the construction of the famous Registan Square.

1975. The journalist Shintaro, who is looking for his father, finds himself on an island with a group of people he hardly knows. Their guide captain Yamada, leaves Shintaro and his fellow-travelers on the island where they are captured by a mad soldier. All attempts to explain things to him are useless. The crazy warrior is sure that the Second world war is till going on. After a month on the island under the command of the nutty soldier they start believing in it themselves. Soon they get the guns and set to work, strengthening their lines, getting ready for the attack of an unknown enemy.

A man is stuck at a red light

A few days from the life of a doctor at an oncological clinic, where a consultant from the Ministry of Health of the republic arrives for the death of a patient.

The film is about the life of a famous football player named Sardor Kamilov. All the journalists are interested in the whereabouts, and his fans thought that he was dead. A journalist searches for Sardor for an interview.

A young chemistry student dreams of creating a “Love Potion” that would capture the hearts of girls all over the world. But after an unsuccessful experiment, an unexpected event occurs, turning his fate in a direction he never could have imagined.

What is Maryam willing to do to please her family?

The events of the film begin with the return from France to his homeland of a citizen who has been diagnosed with the first case of coronavirus in Uzbekistan. The country has declared a state of emergency, quarantine, and doctors are working tirelessly.

The tragic fate of a simple rural girl named Dilorom, who has suffered many trials: the arrest of her father in the "cotton case" launched in Uzbekistan by Moscow investigators Gdlyan and Ivanov, the death of her younger brother, the betrayal of a loved one…

According to Yusuf Roziev’s story, Jamshid is one of the young entrepreneurs and the owner of a teahouse granted to him as help from his uncle. One of his main goals is to earn a considerable amount of money. However, the path he has chosen leads to an utterly wrong outcome. Although his uncle was aware of Jamshid’s actions from the beginning, he does not interfere in his affairs. Jamshid now stands on the edge of a cliff, with even his life in danger…

The work is inspired by the ambiguous figure of Al-Muqannaʿ (“The Veiled One”), a dyer who became a spiritual and political agitator in eighth-century southern Central Asia, while it speculates about the cultural and political echoes of his revolutionary ideas. Al-Muqannaʿ preached an ideological syncretism of Zoroastrianism, Mazdakism and Buddhism, and awakened the minds of his “White-Clothed” disciples by shedding light on the status quo of his time, challenging practices of land exploitation, authoritarian centralized power, and religious repression. His legacy, which might be seen today as “proto socialist,” was appropriated by the regional Soviet propaganda machine as a nativist heroic example of how to rise up and fight for the communal sharing of property and wealth.

Every day, early in the morning, Oidinoy goes to the village school, loudly declaring to everyone that she will definitely study today. Unfortunately, Oidinoy has not yet reached school age. And each time, the teacher sends the persistent little girl out of the classroom, patiently explaining to the child that she should come next year when she grows up a little, and then she will definitely be accepted into the school. Oidina, smart beyond her years, shows extraordinary talent in everything: she sews dolls, plays the violin, dances, sings. But the most amazing thing is that inexplicable fantastic visions appear all the time in the night skies over the village of Dune. And only Grandfather Ehson-buwa knows that it is the dreams of his beloved granddaughter that are reflected in the starry heavens.

A young aspiring screenwriter struggles to come up with a story for a short film to apply for a film school.

The Groom Has Arrived

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Three brothers get a voucher for a family vacation, but they have to get permission from their mother.

According to the 12th century mystic Shihab al-Din Yahya al-Suhrawardi, the world we live in is only one of the 18,000 that make up the universe. The film 18,000 WORLDS is conceived as a video story that draws attention to a world that is losing contact with its ancestors, and where the danger of losing forms of knowledge is real.

A film of the cultural and religious heritage of Uzbekistan, the biography of a historical figure, Yassaviy, one of the first known Sufis of the region, his major teachings narrated and life reenacted.

An independently-produced dramatic feature that depicts Taliban atrocities committed from Kabul to the northern border during the dark era of Taliban rule in the late 1990s.

Documentary about Mirshakar Fayzulloyev's "Champion" concert

Are you ready to sacrifice your own health to save the life of your dearest one?..

A young man cares for his father, who is single.

In the late 1990s, in a small town in Uzbekistan, during the last communist winter, the city authorities decided to establish the world's first internationalist cemetery, where all religions could coexist. Comrade Boykenjaev, an active Party member, was assigned the task. The problem arose when the local Party leader ordered the first burial ceremony to take place on the same day as the cemetery's inauguration. Boykenjaev must then find a corpse...

About how a resident of one village suddenly found a bomb in his yard. The excited inhabitants of the village at first long determine what it is, and then what to do with it.

Tengiz marries Madiyar, an only child, and is forced to conceive within a month of their marriage. At her mother-in-law’s insistence, she hops on a train to go to the hospital and visit her parents along the way. There she learns that the train vendor Anargul and Madiyar may be having an affair.

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Filmmaker Ali Khamraev, accompanied by cinematographer Yuri Klimenko delved into the archives, and travelled to Armenia and Georgia to honour Sergei Parajanov: one of cinema’s greats, whose vision and defiance of convention transcended borders. “Dear Sergei Parajanov. This film is for you.”

The second film from the Call of the Ancestors dilogy. The film tells about a dramatic episode of the struggle of the Central Asian state of Sogdiana against the Arab troops camped at the walls of Samarkand at the beginning of the 8th century.