Movies

Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the center of attention when he is caught stealing a...

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 Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in...

The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines. He is the last link in a huge...

A family of nomads lives in the remote high mountains of Kyrgyzstan...

In the center of the plot are three friends, three old men who swore in the name of the happiness of their friend Kaltay to marry him, no matter...

An amnesiac old man Zarlyk who after twenty-three years of ordeal in a foreign land, returns to his homeland. Events take place in a village in...

In a remote Kyrgyz village, Beshkempir, an infant foundling, is taken in by five older women and later adopted by a couple unable to bear children of...

Serikpai and Amir grow up without a father, who once went to work in Russia, but never returned. They are waiting for him and hoping. Waiting for her...

The fate of stray dogs of town, who wander around seeking their puppies. There are different types of dogs: those who win at contests, those working...

The second film by Kyrgyzstani director Aktan Arym Kubat (then credited by his Russian name Aktan Abdykalykov), it is the first of his...

A river reflects everything without carrying it away. But time — it takes everything away without reflecting anything... A story about...

20s south of Kyrgyzstan. Platoon commander Abysh Isaev arrives at the military garrison. His task, together with the red commander Valentin Ugryumov,...

A puzzling fable about human relations inspired by Samuel Beckett (in Kyrgyz, beket means station). At a bus stop amid a snowy winter landscape,...

Aktan Abdykalikov's simple, clear-eyed poetry finds an elemental form here. Two twin brothers are walking down the road carrying a pail of water,...