Tent
2015

Tent (Kurko)

Kazakhstan
2015

Tent (Kurko)

The local police gives the boy named Sapar to his friend for the summer time in order he grazed sheep as corrective work for stealing chickens. In the…

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Stranger
2015

Stranger (Zhat)

Kazakhstan
2015

Stranger (Zhat)

The film covers the events that took place in a small Kazakh village from the 1930s to the mid 1950s. The steppe is scourged by…

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The Owners
2014

The Owners (Ukkili kamshat)

Kazakhstan
2014

The Owners (Ukkili kamshat)

25 year-old John, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12 year-old sister Aliya, are forced to leave their house in the Kazakh city of…

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Harmony Lessons
2013

Harmony Lessons (Uroki Garmonii)

Germany, France, Kazakhstan
2013

Harmony Lessons (Uroki Garmonii)

Harmony Lessons is set in a small Kazakhstan village, where Aslan, a thirteen-year-old boy living with his grandmother is a diligent student, bullied by an…

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The Old Man
2013

The Old Man (Shal)

Kazakhstan
2013

The Old Man (Shal)

A story inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea but set instead on the endless earthen ocean of the central Asian steppe,…

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Tulpan
2008

Tulpan

Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Poland, Germany
2008

Tulpan

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2008 Asa’s dream is to become a sheepherder and have a flock of his own. We are introduced to Asa, handsomely…

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Native Dancer
2008

Native Dancer (Baksy)

Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, France, Germany
2008

Native Dancer (Baksy)

Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile…

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Constructors
2013

Constructors (Stroiteli)

Kazakhstan
2013

Constructors (Stroiteli)

Winner, APSA NETPAC Development Prize, 2013 Two brothers and their little sister are thrown out of their flat because they haven’t paid the rent. The…

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Karoy
2007

Karoy

Kazakhstan
2007

Karoy

A dramatic comedy about a pathological liar from Kazakhstan.

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The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time
2019

The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time

Kazakhstan, Japan
2019

The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time

12-year-old Olzhas is the eldest son of a family who live in the foothills of Tian Shan, the large span of mountain ranges that cross…

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A Dark, Dark Man
2019

A Dark, Dark Man

Kazakhstan, France
2019

A Dark, Dark Man

When a boy is murdered in a Kazakh village, Detective Bekzat wants to wrap up the inquiries quickly. And why wouldn’t he? After all, the…

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Ayka
2018

Ayka

Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, People's Republic of China, Germany, Poland
2018

Ayka

Ayka just gave birth. She can’t afford to raise a child. She has no job, debts to be paid, not even a room of her…

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The River
2018

The River (Ozen)

Kazakhstan, Norway, Poland
2018

The River (Ozen)

A family lives in a tiny Kazakh village. The oldest child, Aslan, is 13 and his four brothers grow up regarding him with admiration. Kind…

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The Gentle Indifference of the World
2018

The Gentle Indifference of the World (Laskovoe Bezrazlichie Mira)

Kazakhstan, France
2018

The Gentle Indifference of the World (Laskovoe Bezrazlichie Mira)

After her father’s untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic and sheltered countryside life for the cruel city. In order to save her…

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Sveta
2017

Sveta

Kazakhstan
2017

Sveta

Sveta – a deaf woman faces a very difficult life challenge. She is in danger of losing her job as a foreman in a sewing…

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Poet (Akyn)

Poet (Akyn)

Kazakhstan

Poet (Akyn)

Didar is a poet chained to a day job in a small newspaper. In the age of mass consumption, very few care about poetry. Reflecting…

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Bauryna Salu

Bauryna Salu

Kazakhstan

Bauryna Salu

In accordance with the old nomadic tradition of bauryna salu, Yersultan was given at birth to his grandmother so that she could raise him. He…

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Qas

Qas

Kazakhstan

Qas

During the famine genocide of the 1930s in the Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, gravedigger Isatai picks up bodies and takes them to a mass…

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Brothers (Bratya)

Brothers (Bratya)

Kazakhstan

Brothers (Bratya)

Akzhol, having just left an orphanage, is convinced that his father is alive and starts looking for him. Beginning his new and independent life, he…

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Madina

Madina

Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan

Madina

Madina is a mother to a 2-year-old daughter, a caring sister to her introverted brother, and a loving granddaughter. Living in a winter city by…

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