At Least in the Movies

At Least in the Movies 2022

8.00

The official Kairat wins the tender for the construction of the hospital. He promises to make a world-class clinic out of it, but it turns out to be just beautiful words, but in fact a corrupt official builds himself a luxurious dacha with taxpayers' money. Soon the financial police will find out about it, and in order not to go to jail, Kairat, on the advice of his lawyer, decides to pretend to be sick and lie in the hospital. Ironically, he finds himself in the very clinic that he shamelessly robbed.

2022

Wings of Song

Wings of Song 1966

1

Bai Nurtaza hopes to find in the young poet, ambitious and not indifferent to female beauty, a loyal ally in the fight against the Soviet government. Taking advantage of Musa's weakness, unable to resist temptations, he completely subordinates him to his influence...

1966

Qajymuqan

Qajymuqan 2024

1

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.

2024

Dastur

Dastur 2023

5.20

The father of the family, Nursultan Kopzhasarovich, respected in society, owns the entire farm in the village, so his only son Bolat grows up careless and spoiled, which more than once leads to problems and even criminal liability. At another drinking party, Bolat rapes a local school graduate. The father wanted to hush up the matter again, but the girl’s parents had already filed a statement with the police. The only way out of this situation is a wedding, but the life of the family turns into a real nightmare.

2023

Daughter-in-Law Is Also A Human

Daughter-in-Law Is Also A Human 2017

1

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.

2017

Steppe Roar

Steppe Roar 1975

1

The film is dedicated to the events of the Civil War, the offensive of Denikin and Kolchak's troops on Uralsk, and the defense of the city. Historical facts are presented in it on a significant scale, through the personalities and fates of many characters, with a wide introduction of mass and battle scenes.

1975

Bauryna Salu

Bauryna Salu 2025

1

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.

2025

Brother or Marriage 3

Brother or Marriage 3 2024

1

Gauhar gives birth to twins, but Aidar's doubts about fatherhood jeopardize their relationship.

2024

Native Dancer

Native Dancer 2008

3.00

Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile couples children. As capitalist forces begin to encroach on tradition, the first casualty is any culture's most fundamental inheritance - land. The healer has to leave her land because the mob thinks the location is suitable for a filling station. A harsh battle between supernatural good and earthly evil ensues.

2008

Blood and Sweat

Blood and Sweat 1979

7.00

A film epic about the class struggle in a small fishing village on the shore of the Aral sea, about the revolutionary events that stirred up the steppe region. The civil war in the steppes of the Aral sea region is a concrete historical background on which the life of the heroes — Aral fishermen and nomadic pastoralists-unfolds. Three dramatic fates, three characters in the center of the story: the poor farmhand Elaman, who became the leader of the masses awakened by the revolution, Bai Tanibergen, the owner of the steppe, and the beautiful Akbala. Their relationship is not a banal "love triangle", it is a drama that reflects the complexity of the processes that took place in the pre-revolutionary period and during the revolution.

1979

Stranger

Stranger 1993

2.00

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.

1993

The Divorce‎

The Divorce‎ 2024

1

In the mid-1920s, Salimsak, an ordinary Kazakh from the steppe, was disliked by his wife for degrading the family by playing the female role in a play against polygamy. He unintentionally uttered the word "Talaq" during an argument, and according to local religious tradition, if a husband says "Talaq" to his wife three times in a row, it means he is divorced. While Salimsak, who has never thought of leaving his wife, prays for a solution, his wife, under the influence of the popular slogan of "women's liberation", is thinking of divorce. ......... The collapse of Salimsak's small traditional family in the current of the times is a metaphor for the collapse of director Daniyah's family. The metaphor of the collapse epitomizes the core of the films of the director Daniyar Salamat, who has been writing in Kazakh since his debut and believes that cinema has a great significance in social education, and that the spirit of the nation cannot be restored without the progress of cinema.

2024

Mustafa Shokai

Mustafa Shokai 2008

1

A bipoic about Mustafa Shokai, a distinguished Kazakh politican of 1920's.

2008

Bitter Smoke of Autumn

Bitter Smoke of Autumn 1997

1

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.

1997

Lay

Lay 2024

1

Arsen is a lover of easy money and women. Having selected a luxury car from a friend, he had big plans for the evening. In search of adventure, he accidentally meets a mysterious woman. Was this meeting accidental?

2024

The Return of Zoya

The Return of Zoya 2022

1

Galya, an alcoholic procuress, has lost rights to her daughter, Zoya, who is to be put in an orphanage. Galya decides to kidnap Zoya, and, with her autistic boyfriend, Stasik, heads to Kazakhstan to find Zoya's biological father.

2022

Summer Ends Soon

Summer Ends Soon 2022

1

The character of the end 80-s, fascinated by music, socially and nationally mixed up in a Kazakh neighborhood. Among them is a Kazakh teenager who unexpectedly falls in love with a girl of Russian-Polish roots. The age and national differences become an almost insurmountable obstacle for the main character, manifested through his friend who is a rival as well as a friend, a Russian guy - the leader of the courtyard band.

2022