Aktan Abdykalikov's simple, clear-eyed poetry finds an elemental form here. Two twin brothers are walking down the road carrying a pail of water,...
Hassan Hussen
The second film by Kyrgyzstani director Aktan Arym Kubat (then credited by his Russian name Aktan Abdykalykov), it is the first of his...
The Swing
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...
The Light Thief
"The Lake" tells the story of a girl named Jyldys who lives with her family in a village by the Issyk-Kul. Her life is hard. Her classmates tease her...
The Lake
An amnesiac old man Zarlyk who after twenty-three years of ordeal in a foreign land, returns to his homeland. Events take place in a village in...
This Is What I Remember
Paradise at Mothers’ Feet 2
A family of nomads lives in the remote high mountains of Kyrgyzstan...
Heavenly Nomadic
In a remote Kyrgyz village, Beshkempir, an infant foundling, is taken in by five older women and later adopted by a couple unable to bear children of...
The Adopted Son
Asema, a Kyrgyz city girl visiting her boyfriends family in the countryside, is mistaken for a villager and accidentally kidnapped by Sagyn, a young...
Pure Coolness
A puzzling fable about human relations inspired by Samuel Beckett (in Kyrgyz, beket means station). At a bus stop amid a snowy winter landscape,...
Bus Stop
On a cloudy day a group of passengers set out on a journey to their village. This trip will test their morals, faith, and spirit, while they will try...
Unknown Route
At a time when most females in Asia possess little or no power over their lives, headstrong Kurmanjan Datka defies her family's authority -- and...
Queen of the Mountains
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...
Centaur
A high-mountainous region of Kyrgyzstan. A raging disaster nearly takes the life of a girl named Saltanat, a young zootechnician from a high-mountain...
Saltanat
As his city faces the threat of being conquered by an evil lord, a brave boy decides to take matters in his own hands.
How a Boy Saved His City
After living as an immigrant in the USA for 15 years, Azat flies to Kyrgyzstan to his family village. His father, Murat, died in the USA a year ago....
A Father's Will
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...
Tengri: Blue Heavens
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...
Shambala
After his long-lost son is suddenly thrust back into his life, a charismatic con artist takes to the road with his two wives, swindling everyone they...
Suleiman Mountain
A boy and his grandmother wait for news of the boy's parents, working in Russia to repay a bank loan. A clerk comes to demand repayment of the debt...
Silence
The craft of carpet weaving in Kyrgyzstan boasts a long and legendary history, and is an integral part of local life. Turdugul, known as the most...
Black Red Yellow
In this animated film inspired by Kyrgyz fairy-tales, a skylark helps people solve their problems.
The Skylark
Episodic portrait of the absurdities of Kyrgyz village life in the summer.
Saratan
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...
The Song of the Tree