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A story about the life of an old woman named Burma. Coarsened and hardened in soul, she becomes attached and imbued with maternal love for a strange...

The craft of carpet weaving in Kyrgyzstan boasts a long and legendary history, and is an integral part of local life. Turdugul, known as the most...

Teenager Mukai spends most of the year in a remote Kyrgyz village with his grandmother while his parents work in a secluded mountain area. At...

A retired writer is living his last days as a famous and poor writer in a society increasingly concerned by wealth. A widower, he has no children and...

At a time when most females in Asia possess little or no power over their lives, headstrong Kurmanjan Datka defies her family's authority -- and...

After a brave young man disobeys the authorities by refusing to abandon his father, the old man covertly helps him by using his wisdom and wit.

During the second world war two friends work at a remote railway station in the steppes. When one dies the other's request to bury him according to...

Two elderly women from a remote mountain village must climb the stairs of a tall apartment building to visit a relative. As they make their way up,...

Episodic portrait of the absurdities of Kyrgyz village life in the summer.

A young Kyrgyz woman is kidnapped and forced to marry. A drama about the desire for freedom in the clutches of a tradition.

Based on the story of Chingiz Aitmatov "The White Steamer". In a forest cordon, lost high in the mountains, an old man and an old woman and his...

In 1920s' Kyrgyzstan, the lives of three people intertwine over the course of a fateful night.

Central Asia. A sanatorium called Aurora, is located at the shores of the high mountainous lake Issyk-Kul and the action of the film is taking place...

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...

When animals near a state-run oil field begin to exhibit bizarre symptoms, a fearless veterinarian embarks on a mission to uncover the cause and...

Salia, an orphan, immediately after finishing her tenth year leaves her stepmother’s home, which she does not love, to a mining village to live...

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,...

The Great Silk Road is the name for a mountain trade route now identifiable only by train tracks; it is on these tracks that our film finds four...