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An evocative animated film on the life and works of the great Kyrgyz poet Alykul Osmonov.

In this animated film inspired by Kyrgyz fairy-tales, a skylark helps people solve their problems.

A slice of cheese dances with a small sausage on an empty plate.

Inspired by Kyrgyz fairy-tales. When people have to select a new lord, they turn to a falcon for help.

A management team watches an industrial film about their factory.

In a remote Kyrgyz village, 35-year-old Adil, who has the mind of an 8-year-old, lives with his elderly mother, Rayhan. She has always told him he is...

Esen, a young man who has been expelled from his village, escapes with the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the village. Whilst being...

Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the center of attention when he is caught stealing a...

A puzzling fable about human relations inspired by Samuel Beckett (in Kyrgyz, beket means station). At a bus stop amid a snowy winter landscape,...

The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines. He is the last link in a huge...

Based on a story from Talip Ibraimov’s collection „The Old man and the Angel“. Angels can be heralds of positive or negative...

A large village high in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan has become almost deserted. Not only the three old men who are protecting the empty houses, but...

In the 1940s, young Kirghiz boy falls hopelessly for Jamilla, but their love has no future.

A retired writer is living his last days as a famous and poor writer in a society increasingly concerned by wealth. A widower, he has no children and...

After the Kyrgyzstan Independence in 1991, the ancient practice of Ala-Kachuu ("grab and run") returned. Some women escape the men that kidnap them,...

Asema, a Kyrgyz city girl visiting her boyfriends family in the countryside, is mistaken for a villager and accidentally kidnapped by Sagyn, a young...

This is a love story set in the steppes of Central Asia of today. Temür a thirty year old Kazakh decides to start life again in his ancestral...

The action takes place on the southern outskirts of the country in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. The film tells about the struggle of the Bolsheviks...

A young Kyrgyz woman is kidnapped and forced to marry. A drama about the desire for freedom in the clutches of a tradition.

Based on the story of Chingiz Aitmatov "The White Steamer". In a forest cordon, lost high in the mountains, an old man and an old woman and his...