Meşhur Kimden Kazakhstan

Little fidgets Timur and Janik live in a bustling city. One day their mother goes to the store, and they get to the bloodthirsty monsters in the underworld.

A lonely, shy guy wants to start a conversation with anyone in a bar, but, not having the courage to do so, goes to a smoking room, where he meets a girl, one look at whom takes his imagination away.

One night, a thief broke into the house of Kasyrbai, who is considered the richest man in the village, and searches for suspicious people began in the village. The Kul Pasha family, innocently oppressed, finds a way out of this tense situation.

The main character of the film is the hapless stuntman Janelle, who is unlucky at work and in personal relationships because of her stubbornness and eccentricity, but she is a devoted friend and a real fighter. Janelle has to fly urgently to Sri Lanka, where her father is "sunbathing" in the police for violating the passport regime.

In the context of the global financial crisis, a criminal group headed by Frank Rizzol and his henchmen scumbags entrust Azamat with an unusual order — shooting a horror film with real murders of actors. The implementation of this project is entrusted to Eugene, who is recruiting a non-standard team of professionals consisting of the head of the Dream of the Green Rock sect, a mad chemist and an ambitious hypnotist.

The biographical tape will tell about the fate and life of the Hero of Labor of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, World Champion, Olympic Champion, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1980), Honored Coach of the Kazakh SSR Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov.

A story about the work of the Kazakh search party in the Sinyavinsky marshes of the Leningrad region, where divisions formed in the KSSR fought during the blockade. However, neither chronology nor geography matter: 75 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, it is still going on. Until now, people come from faraway Kazakhstan to fight for a city that should not have been there for a long time.

Aslan is sent against his will to spend the summer holidays with his grandfather. However, he soon becomes convinced that this is the best and most exciting adventure of his life.

The main character Gabit is a representative of the criminal world. He got sick while in prison. The lungs cannot breathe on their own. He always carries an oxygen tank. At the clinic where he is being treated, they say they can't help him, it's too late. "Gaba" escapes from the clinic, wanting to spend the last moments of her life free.

Set in the ancient town of Bukhara in Uzbekistan, the film follows a young man Behzod, as he surrenders his carefree youth and takes on the mantle of adulthood. Being locked in a highly patriarchal Muslim society of Bukhara, together with his bride he goes through a traditional wedding ceremony and centuries old initiation rites to finally become a head of the new family. But does this path make those young really happy?

An 11-year-old boy named Ayan learns dark secrets of his family after a summer visit to his home village.

A young guy Sapar is forced to graze sheep all summer for stealing chickens. In the pasture, he meets a Kyrgyz girl Aichurek. Together they build a hut where they hide from the weather. And where a beautiful love story begins.

Azamat, before leaving for the army, wants to buy a car for his father so that he can earn a living on it. There are 10 days left before the army, and he agrees to steal.

Arsin has been seeking Bek unsuccessfully for many years when he finally finds a clue. He decides to return to their common hometown to find Bek, but he does not expect that things are far more complicated than he thinks…

A class of schoolchildren, sometime in the future, go on a virtual tour of the 1930s to learn about the famine that caused the death of millions at that time. One of the boys finds himself more drawn into the tale than he would have expected. The film blends actual history with a touching time-defying friendship in the vein of Tom’s Midnight Garden.

How should we remember catastrophic events? And what remains in people’s memory when their stories are silenced? All the Dreams We Dream is a hand-drawn animation based on the memories of those who endured famine in Qazaqstan in the 1930s. Based on two memoirs retold by poet Gafu Kairbekov, it seeks to explore questions of empathy and fear, asking how stories of violence and pain should be recounted in the modern age.

Kazakh has an old tradition that every Kazakh boy over the age of five has to be circumcised in autumn. This traditional ceremony has a symbolic meaning that a boy is about to become a man. This story is about a young Kazakh boy who comes to his grandfather’s house in the grassland of pastoral areas with his family, and goes through the traditional circumcision ceremony. During the process, he becomes fearful after discovering it is a medical surgery. Although he tries to run away from it, he eventually goes through the ceremony. With the physiological changes, his character and thoughts change and he is on his path to adulthood…

A small film crew tracks a Kazak family in Xinjiang, China's western-most province, from spring to winter. Unlike the people of Kazakstan, who grew into a nation of farmers and workers, the Kazaks retained their nomadic life and a close bond with nature. The crew follows a typical nomadic family with 11 children as the family travel wherever there is grass for their animals. They endure incredible hardships, sometimes going several days without food. In spite of this they have moments of joy and beauty, believing that nature will support them and that they will survive. The filmmakers' four-year-long effort shooting the film is part of a recent rise in Chinese filmmakers' documenting their country's ethnic diversity. Although it takes a classic ethnographic, observational approach, the film is stunning in its cinematic, epic style. Richly informative for teaching anthropology, Asian Studies, nomadic cultures and kinship. Filmmaker: Wei Bin