Populär Vun Kazakhstan

Six touching stories in the city of dreams, hope and love.

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.

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.

In 1993 in Alma-Ata, a young fatty girl and student Aigul, nicknamed the Cow, suffers from the constant taunts of her classmates. Like the other girls, the heroine is in love with a handsome boy from their class, Marlen. At one of the parties, she confesses her love for him, which ends in an embarrassing fiasco. However, they get together in the political race twenty years later...

While the KNB was deciding who to send as a "victim" on a dangerous task, an ordinary office employee, Kairat, who was already going to retire, came into the office.

Having failed to realize herself either in her family or in her career, Asel still decides to go to a meeting of classmates. At the meeting, she is even more overwhelmed by the success of her classmates and the ridicule of Gauhar. After talking with Timur, who has loved Asel since high school, she realizes that many things could have been different. Depressed, she doesn't intend to live like this anymore. And fate gives her a second chance: Asel returns to the past.

Zhomart and his relatives work at the hotel and periodically get into various comical situations.

According to legend, several "asyks" exist in the world, each linked to great historical figures: Genghis Khan, Tutankhamun, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Napoleon, and Van Gogh. Whoever gathers all of these artifacts will be granted a wish that will be fulfilled instantly. On the eve of the Generations Cup in "asyk", a fierce rivalry ignites between the young world champions and the veteran players — the first national champions — for possession of the Great Asyks. The captain of the elder team comes from a family that has safeguarded part of these precious artifacts, while the remaining "asyks" are in the hands of the owner of the young champions’ team. At stake are not only the fates of many people, but also love and personal ambition.

A businessman mired in debt goes to an apple orchard inherited from his father to sell it and settle financial problems. But it turns out that the garden is not empty: it is inhabited by people who are fighting for the preservation of the Almaty airport, and the ghosts of his own past.

Seker is a girl who was raised as a son by a father who wanted his first child to be a boy as tradition in the countryside family demands. When Seker approaches the age of adolescence she faces a mandate from the local school: put on a dress or don't return. So finally gaining her father's permission she turns from a fist-fighting boy into a blossoming young girl.

Teenager Amir hides from reality in his virtual world. Unlike problems at home and at school, everything is simple and clear in the game. However, conflicts are accumulating, including due to attachment to such a digital escape.

A poetic elegy about the first teen-age romance on eve of the Aral sea catastrophe.

A group of drunk students kills a person in road accident and disposes the body. The ghost of deceased starts to get revenge.

Aslan and Asima are an exemplary family. They met back in their student years, have been living happily ever since, they have a son and a daughter. Asima is undergoing another medical examination, and according to the results, the doctor informs her that "she has very little time left" Now Asima has only one option: to make her family happy. But how? At this moment, her friend Camilla comes to her aid…

Bakha and Takha are the sons of a well-known businessman who are really into adventures and surprises. Once, the boys come across a story about the Queen of the Turkic Amazons who needs help to fight the Powers of Evil. The brothers decide to offer their help in exchange for a chance to bring their mother back to life and win back their father's attention. Meanwhile, the boys' stepmom hires two bandits to kidnap her unloved stepsons. The bandits drop the boys off in a forest and this is when the big adventure begins.

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.

Historical and adventure drama about how the famous Tai-Kazan was created by order of Tamerlane.

In the film, the theme of children and the elderly, forced to adapt to the new conditions of the perestroika period, sounds shrill. The plot is based on just one day in the life of two teenage brothers and a lonely old woman.