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The heroes of the film, dreaming of a wonderful carefree life, hijack a plane to get to America. Everything is going well. However, instead of sunny Florida, they find themselves at a secret military base...

The story of the fate of Kunanbai, who was born in 1804 in the village of Shyngystau, Semipalatinsk region. He was a fair volost judge, whose son Abai glorified his homeland and the Kazakh people with his works for centuries.

A way station is lost in the boundless Kazakh steppe. A wayfarer lives in a small house with his daughter Saule.

The film will tell about the most striking events in the biography of the Kazakh wrestler. The plot line is based not only on Kazhymukan's sporting successes. Love, money, fame, poverty, batyr had to go through all this in his life. Kazhymukan Munaitpasov is a world champion in classical wrestling among professionals, the first Kazakh to become a champion in French wrestling, a multiple winner of world, regional, Russian, as well as all-Union championships in classical wrestling among heavyweights.

Sergey Dvortsevoy makes his international debut with this astonishingly intimate portrait of a nomadic family on the Kazakh plains. Several scenes in this slow, elegant film betray a certain dry humor -- a child devouring the last of a bowl of yogurt and then crying; a cow getting its head stuck in a pail; and a woman singing to herself, accompanied by her snoring husband. Other scenes capture the nomads' hardscrabble lives -- drunken herdsmen in the grips of existential despair, growling dogs, and a camel enduring a rather grim septum piercing. By the end of the film, the family pulls up stakes and herds its sundry four-legged beasts -- camels, cattle, goats, dogs, and horses -- to a more fertile plain. This film was screened at the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.

Four friends dive head-on into the world of crime and find themselves in a criminal gang. However, showdowns, shootings and a police raid put the guys' lives at risk. The 2000s are a time of change and the beginning of a new stage in their lives.

A drama about two orphan brothers who leave their home village and try to survive in big city.

The film is dedicated to the upcoming 150th anniversary of the birth of Kazakh writer and public figure Akhmet Baitursynov next year. Filming began in Almaty in November.

A teenager runs away from home in search of himself and encounters a mysterious old man.

Life in Karatas Village runs along an untroubled path, until its patriarchal way of life is challenged by Ulbolsyn, a woman whose coldblooded heart and blazing temperament are not afraid of setting everything on fire.

Mukhtar, a 50-year-old still haunted by a trauma that made him hate soccer, reluctantly becomes the coach of a children's soccer club that's being used for money laundering by a mysterious crime boss. At first, Mukhtar doesn't want any part of it, but as he starts working with orphans who dream of success, he gradually changes his mind. Together, they head to Brazil to chase their dreams, trying to enter the championship. Can Argymak overcome these obstacles and achieve their big goal?

New Year's Eve. Classmates stay in the house on the hillside for various reasons. Everything is happening as if someone specially gathered them here. People who have long lost their faith in fairy tales, at first perceive it as a joke. However, the appearance of an elf and Santa Claus further aggravates the situation. Gradually, they realize that they have really plunged into the world of fairy tales, and they will even have to save the celebration of the New Year, which may not come.

A boy walks through the market. He steals sausages, plates and a candle. An angry market vender tracks him, but something surprises him.

At his father's funeral, the boy meets his uncle, who has been in prison for a long time, an unemployed and drunk man who came to say goodbye to his brother. Soon the boy learns that in fact his father is exactly this fallen man, who at one time left the family to his older brother. The newly-born father expels the boy's mother from the house. Unable to control himself, the child kills the offender.

A Man of great talent. Misunderstood and censored genius. Loving caring father. Lonely fighter for freedom. Eagle of High Mountains. Lucky, but Ill-fated Poet, whom we never knew. Mukagali Makataev became recognized only after his death in 1976. Nowadays he is named as legendary poet of Kazakh literature.

This is the story of a young woman, Aiganym, who was born into the Orthodox Kazakh family from the South of Kazakhstan. When she was a student at the college in the capital city of Kazakhstan, she gave birth to a boy. Right after giving birth, her family cursed her and rejected her and her newborn son because she was a single mother. After seven years, Timur, her son, was not able to accomplish his homework assignment “to draw a family tree”. Aiganym decides to return to her parents’ house, so that her son has a big family. Regardless of the fact that each time, she wants to return, her eldest brother beats her up, she keeps on returning home again and again…

Desperate husband cheats on wife after many years of childless marriage and accidentally knocks up the lover lady.

After his release from prison, Kairat immediately rushes to find a way to save his sick mother. The doctors' diagnosis turns out to be ruthless: in order to save his mother's life, he needs to get expensive medical equipment from China and medicines worth a million dollars.

The hero of the film Max secretly meets with the girlfriend of the mafia Ahmedya, Aizhan. Ahmedya finds them together and puts Max in the trunk, where there is already a guy from the village of Kayyrly tan, who also crossed the path of the mafia. That's where the adventures begin...