Shulamah 2024
This is the story of three friends from Temirtau who took a step into the rap industry by going to Almaty.
This is the story of three friends from Temirtau who took a step into the rap industry by going to Almaty.
Three teenagers are left alone on the river in Kazakhstan during WWII.
A boy is murdered in Kazakh village. Detective Bekzat wants to wrap up the inquiries quickly: after all, the perpetrator has already been found by local police officers. But when a journalist arrives from the city, everything falls to pieces. For the first time in his career, Bekzat must conduct a real investigation according to procedure.
Stealing a prized falcon to help fund their dream of moving to Paris, two HIV-positive Kazakh teenagers come of age as they embark on a journey of liberation.
The stranger is John, an American visiting Kazakhstan as part of an exchange programme for "medical expertise". He meets the local people who lead a free and simple life. With his new friends, John will live through a series of adventures. He spends four very strange days with a friend and colleague. Back at his hotel, John hears that his friend has died in mysterious circumstances, but people say he had in fact been dead for several days.
Left without parents, having gone through hardships and hardships, Kasym ends up in a boarding school, where he learns true friendship and becomes a marksman. Growing up, he falls in love, goes through exploits and betrayal during the Great Patriotic War. A "thread" from the past helps him to keep a person in himself, which connects him with the roots of the family and the values of his ancestors.
Adil is an assistant prosecutor, the only son in a patriarchal family. Currying favor at work in front of the boss, he "excuses" the family abuser in court - the son of a high-ranking official who beats his wife. One day, he wakes up in an alternate universe where men and women occupy opposite roles. In this world, he faces inequality and a biased attitude towards men. Adil changes his views on gender equality and decides to help a victim of domestic violence. His actions lead to his dismissal from the prosecutor's office, but he continues to fight for justice. Eventually, he decides to become an independent human rights defender.
Darkhan, a young scientist, returns home, where he has not been for seven years. His girlfriend Elena comes with him. The eldest member of the family - Darkhan's grandfather Sagat - invites his grandson and his girlfriend on a trip to their native places, lost in the infinity of the steppe. All three embark on a transformative meditative journey, confronting questions of acceptance along the way, exploring and testing the strength of their bonds.
While the district administration prepares for the arrival of high-ranking guests, local alcoholic Sadyq Ospanovich solves intergalactic problems. Two large-scale events, developing simultaneously, lead to an inevitable conflict. The life-weary saleswoman Nadezhda and the naive policeman Baur find themselves between two fires.
Orphaned by the brutal Soviet collectivization campaign of the 1930s, a young Kazakh boy takes to the mountains and lives amongst a pack of wolves.
Following an old nomadic tradition 'Bauryna Salu', a boy Yersultan, was given after his birth to be raised by his grandmother. He grew up with resentment and disconnection from his parents. When he turns twelve, his grandmother dies and he has to move back with his family which he barely knows. Yersultan's coming of age process coincides with an unbearable transformation and an attempt to restore the relationship between him and his parents, especially his father.
For her job as an influencer, she wears orange and a broad smile. The “Happiness” brand is her doctrine, but her home is a dark place where brute force has ruled for years. This film shows us what it costs to escape the trap of misogyny.
A story of four childhood friends who mysteriously disappeared while camping in the rural mountains of Trans Ili Alatau. The following events were recorded on Sultan's videocamera, who was making his student thesis project on a local plant called the Asafoetida.
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.
A film is based on the novel by a Kazakh writer Sabit Mukanov. It shows Kazakhstan in 1916-1917 and how people reacted to tough times, the World War I and the ideas of the revolution and Bolshevism. Botagoz is a girl who never stopped believing in justice, despite numerous trials. She performed a heroic act and contributed to the battle against the White Guardsmen (Belogvardeytsi)
The story of the growing up of 11-year-old Dzhabai, who sells mountain onions on the highway, who finds his mother with his idol, a truck driver, and goes to China for Viagra for his father that he becomes a strong man.
Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.
The story of a daughter-in-law whose relationship with her mother-in-law reaches its boiling point. The main character, who for many years endured not only the sharp remarks of her husband's mother, but also the frequent belittling of her status, decides to file for divorce. But one fine morning, something changes.
A woman is led by her family to her new husband's home, to live with, presumably, his elderly mother and younger brother. Despite being forced into the marriage, she discovers that he is not such a bad catch after all but domestic bliss does not last long.
Tolesh is romantic. He loves music, nature, and generally loves life. However, none of his entourage did not understand him. He decided to realize his dream - to get an autograph from the famous Moscow DJ. However, to find in a big city, even a famous musician is not easy at all .
After the death of his mother, Zaure learns about the existence of his father. In search of him, she comes from her native village to the city, where many trials await her, including the well-known confrontation with her stepmother.
Mark is a high school student at an elite school, whose carefree life ends one day: his beloved girlfriend Ailin becomes distant with zero explanation. At the same time, Mark begins to see strange targeted messages on his social media feed, which seem to be messages from the future as they describe events that begin to happen in real life. When he receives a "target" predicting that a life-threatening fire will break out at the school, he realizes he must act. Now, Mark needs not only to figure out his relationship with Ailin, but also to prevent a catastrophe by finding the arsonist. Having managed to convince his peers that the danger is real, they set out to prevent a catastrophe.
The main character is a modest, kind and a little strange girl Aisulu. Strange, because she had a fairly modest experience of communicating with people. Her parents are journalists and therefore constantly on business trips. The Grandmother, with whom Aisulu lives now, was engaged in the upbringing of the girl in their absence. Immediately after graduating from the university, Aisulu goes to get a job on a TV channel. After getting a job, but not as a journalist, as she dreamed, but as an assistant director, Aisulu faces reality and realizes that she knows nothing about TV production.
I'm Beautiful was a Kazakh reality television show competition of non-professional aspiring models broadcast on Hit TV for a contract with the international model agency. Its first cycle premiered and finished in 2005. 18 girls competed with only 17 of them moving into the model house. After several weeks Saule Zhunusova made a voluntary exit of the show because she felt homesick and bullied by the other contestants. In a live show final the top four battled it out for the win with Altyn Bekanova triumphing over Zhanna Saryeva in the super final. Many of the show's alumni went on to represent Kazakhstan in several beauty peagants afterwards. For now there are no further plans to continue the show.
Many years ago, on board a plane flying through the airspace of Kazakhstan, the wife of an influential Turkish oligarch gave birth to a girl. And the Kazakh doctor who delivered the baby had a one-year-old son. In a fit of feelings, the mothers decided to marry their children in the future… 25 years pass, and young people meet in Astana, where the business interests of Kazakh and Turkish builders intersect.
The action of the series revolves around a talented girl from an orphanage, who after watching the movie "Cocktail for a Star" realizes that she wants to become a star. Throughout the tape, the viewer will see the whole story of her difficult life, how she grew up, overcoming difficulties and encountering evil people, while always remaining kind and sincere with a loving heart.
A 43-year-old bachelor who was psychologically traumatized in his youth, whose bride was taken away from under the crown. After this incident, the main character swore that he would never marry, and decided to devote himself entirely to work. But later everything changes. Over the course of ten episodes, Kadyrbek will face many adventures: with strange brides, harmful bosses, intrigues of colleagues.
The series is designed to draw the attention of the audience to one of the urgent problems of society — orphanhood. "There are no other people's children," these words, like the leitmotif of the series, pulsate in every frame.
What does it mean to be a daughter-in-law in a village in Kazakhstan? It means being a keeper of tradition, a housewife and a daughter to your new relatives. However, it will not be so easy for a girl from a big city to settle into her new place.
The main character of the series is a successful son of rich parents. He graduated from a university in England and intends to open his own business in the near future. His chosen one was a simpleton from a poor family. The girl is not accustomed to luxury and has already managed to face betrayal in personal relationships. Will two completely different people be able to be together?..
Under the pretext of illness, the girl's father forces her to promise to marry. But among potential suitors, the daughter makes a very unexpected choice…
The story of the true path of Bauyrzhan Momyshuly from the time when he met General Panfilov, and when he was appointed head of the battalion.
One day, fate brings together three women in one place, each of whom has experienced domestic violence from men to a greater or lesser extent. The girls decide to take revenge on their abusers. First, they decide to do it with the help of the law. They understand that it will take a lot of time and effort to carry out this venture, so they choose another path. In their opinion, the life of each of them was spoiled by a man, so they intend to destroy their usual way of life. But it turns out to be not so easy to implement this plan.