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Ademoka is a headstrong and gifted 15-year-old girl whose big dream is to study. Her status as Lyuli an illegal immigrant from Tajikistan is a serious obstacle to this. She is exploited by her extended family and forced to beg on the streets, she manages to free herself from the family, when they get deported she has to choose between family and education. She gets helped on the way by some oddball characters, who come to her aid against the corrupt system and the patriarchal family.

Beck is ready to fight for his feelings at any cost, by coincidence involved in a brawl and standing up for a friend, he finds himself in a maelstrom of events that radically change his life. By helping friends solve problems related to the sale of land, our hero realizes that this is his chance to play his game. Life takes on a new breath, events change like in a kaleidoscope, the stakes are getting higher, and business is more dangerous. Our hero's career is making new turns up, he is not stopped by any criminal showdowns or dastardly attacks, he becomes recognizable by the fathers of the city. But all these are just steps towards the ultimate goal - to be together with your girlfriend...

Young boxer Arlan, a trainee at the Olympic Reserve Boxing School, dreams of making it to the Olympics. However, he is forced to take on side jobs to support his mother and younger brother, who suffers from a rare illness. One day, while working at a store, he meets Alina, a piano student at the conservatory who secretly dreams of becoming a singer. Their meeting inspires her to gain the confidence to choose her own path. As his brother’s condition worsens and expensive treatment becomes necessary, Arlan, following the advice of his friend Tokha, agrees to take part in underground bare-knuckle fights to earn quick money — sacrificing his dream of Olympic gold. Now, he must endure a grueling journey through the brutal world of underground fighting, where the reigning champion is the undefeated Nikita Aday.

When a frail grandmother is left to babysit a toddler, the worst-case scenario unfolds.

Vocal Parallels is a surreal, impressionistic concert of classical opera pieces performed by several retired Soviet opera divas: Roza Dzhamanova, Araksiia Davtian, Bibigul’ Tulegenova, and the late Erik Salim-Meriuert (Kurmangaliev), a fantastic countertenor.

Unconfident Sanjar receives another refusal in the competition of screenwriters. On the way home, he meets a charming girl Aisulu and they have mutual feelings. In an attempt to impress the girl, Sanjar comes up with a story about shooting his film in America. Lovers talk on the phone all the time. Romantic girl Aisulu decides to surprise the young man and goes to the USA. Sanjar is forced to fly on his first flight to America to beg forgiveness from his beloved.

Cheerful, purposeful and a bit hooligan senior Arnur remains confined to a wheelchair after the tragedy. Unable to adjust, he gives up. And only true male friendship and sincere love will help him find a taste for life.

In the 1920-30s, 70% of the indigenous population died from the Great Famine created by the Bolsheviks in Kazakhstan. Overcoming the dreadful fear of death and despair, an eagle hunter's family from a Kazakh village in the highlands is trying to stay alive in the midst of the fierce winter and face a moral choice, to die as human beings or to survive at any cost, transgressing the human decency.

A young girl Almagul is studying to be a cinematographer and goes to the front line to find her lover on the battlefield.

The successful hotelier Zhomart Kanatovich goes to the international level. Together with Alain, Roche, Bagdaulet and newcomer Marlene, they fly to Turkey to buy a hotel at auction. But buying a hotel is not an easy task and all the heroes are waiting for new adventures, tougher than those that were in America, Africa and Korea.

Ex-con Kermek and his beloved Eva want to leave their crime-infested lives on the Kazakh steppes behind. He has a dream: building a movie theater in the mountains. Will Kermek's love of Alain Delon be strong enough to keep them out of the violent clutches of the mafia?

Two brothers and their little sister are thrown out of their flat because they haven't paid the rent. The orphans pack up their few possessions and go out to the country, where the family owns a small plot of land. The children set up camp, knowing they have to fend for themselves. But this solution is insecure, too: they are told, in no uncertain terms, that all plots will shortly pass to the state unless at least the foundations of a house have been laid. The threesome get down to work, making night-time visits to neighboring sites to 'borrow' tools and materials, then building by day. But no sooner are the foundation walls complete than an unsympathetic policeman ad...

Behind the fragile facade of a successful, self-sufficient and self-confident woman, Ayala, like all women of the subtle East, hides her big little life. Who is she? An ambitious businesswoman? Or a fragile, weak woman floating with the flow of her memories, trying not to drown in the quagmire of the past? But the most important question is: what is the real purpose of a woman - to love and remember, or to let go of the past and be loved?

Didar is a poet, but he cannot live from his poetry. He has to write early in the mornings before setting out for his day job as a newspaper editor. Didar is surrounded by a sense of crisis, not just because of his economic situation but also due to discussions at work about the diminishing significance of Kazakh culture, dying languages, and the worldwide dominance of English. He is questioning whether poetry is still relevant in today’s world, but finds solace in contemplating a rebellious 19th-century poet, Makhambet Otemisuly.

Akkyz (The White Girl) is a modern retelling of an ancient Kazakh legend about the creation of the world from the eggs of the Sacred White Swan. Nine-year old Aruzhan lives in harmony with nature on a deserted island, together with her mother and brother.

After many years spent in a Hong Kong prison, the old man returns to his homeland. Did he think that, thanks to a random fellow traveler - a nice guy Igor - he would be drawn into a dangerous intrigue. Now, in order to survive himself and save Igor, he must unravel this ingenious tangle, balancing "on the razor's edge" to force criminals to get entangled in their own networks.

1918. "I don't know," he said. Commissar Tokhtar Baitenov leads a detachment of Chekists, which is not numerous. The story of the film unfolds quickly, it is a typical "Ostern" — an oriental action movie: shooting, chase, dancing of beautiful girls, but at the same time, along the film line, there is a smell of mysterious gossip and repression with characters.

The historical tape is dedicated to the outstanding Kazakh poet, fighter for justice, activist of the liberation movement in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the XIX century Makhambet Utemisov.

The founder of the financial pyramid, Azamat, is sentenced to several years for his machinations, but before that, his assets and the house in which a large amount of money is hidden are confiscated. After his release, Azamat has no choice but to return to his former home and steal his money.

During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with trying to control everything around him. His compulsion draws Aslan, who lives with his grandmother in a village in Kazakhstan, into increasingly difficult situations. He abhors the way most of his fellow pupils are held in the sway of a criminal scheme, in which Bolat, one of Aslan’s tormentors, is also involved. Bolat blackmails the younger children into paying him protection money; he has nothing but contempt for ostracised Aslan.