The film is about a young man who was born on the day when Kazakhstan gained its long-awaited independence. The guy's memories start from childhood. The events in his personal life are closely intertwined with what the whole country was going through.
The love story of a Mongolian shooter and a Kazakh girl, the daughter of the governor Zakira, develops against the background of historical events of the time of Genghis Khan.
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.
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.
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.
Aliya, a 36 year old Kazakh lesbian, has, for the first time in her life, tried to play the Green Card Lottery and won. Now she cannot decide whether to leave Kazakhstan or stay. On one hand, Aliya is tired of the stagnation, corruption, and dictatorship of the Kazakh society, she wants changes in her life. But on the other, she is afraid of uncertainty and to start all over again in a foreign country.
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.
Kairat, a teacher of mathematics, accidentally meets Aslar, along with whom he studied in university. Askar invites him to his home, where Kairat becomes acquainted with Togzhan, the wife of Askar. And he falls in love with her. Though this love was mutual, they couldn't step over the obstacles already made by their lives. Their emotions delayed. The script is based on the novel by Chekhov's About Love, Gooseberry.
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.
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.
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...
All Kazakh wedding ceremonies have been banned. No weddings or anniversaries. But some people continue to organize them. A department has been created to combat celebrations, which catches and punishes artists.
25 year-old John, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12 year-old sister Aliya, are forced to leave their house in the Kazakh city of Almaty. By luck their mother left them a house in a remote village, where they plan to prepare their comeback. But the house appears to be on the wish list of the District Officer’s alcoholic brother, who has lived there illegally for 10 years.
Sanjik, an ordinary kid from the district, throws a gorgeous party in honor of his fake birthday in order to attract the attention of a girl he has been in love with since high school.
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.
Alimzhan is a Kazakh roboticist. His next invention, the G-6, wins the robot competition in Brussels. In order to experiment working in rural conditions, he comes to his uncle Koshkarbai, from whom his wife left the day before Alimzhan's arrival. How will an ordinary villager Koshkarbai perceive the new invention of a scientist? After all, the robot looks very similar to a woman…
Samat is already over thirty, but he has never found his family happiness. Bauyrzhan, like a true friend, comes to his aid. Together they go to the big city to get the bride. Amazing adventures await them, friends will be mistaken for international smugglers, they will be chased by bandits and the police...
During the summer holidays, parents send a twelve-year-old boy Kambar to his grandparents. The days of fun adventures are coming – getting to know Samal and other peers – swimming in the river, baked potatoes by the night fire, scary stories under the starry sky… One night, the wolf attacks the cat and takes with him the kid that Samal was caring for. Kambar decides to kill the wolf. And when the adults leave for the wedding, he goes hunting with Samal.
Azat blames his father for not achieving financial success in his youth and drinking a lot. After a quarrel caused by these problems, Azat finds himself in 1994, the year when his parents had just married. As a result, he tries to avoid a repeat of their fate and thinks, by interfering with their wedding, that he has the opportunity to change his life.
The story is about a young and daring crime boss named Sakura. He has great influence in the underworld, but fate presents him with an unforeseen twist. Faced with a powerful enemy, Sakura has to fight not only for her power, but also for her life.
