by Dias Bertis Feature Film, Work-In-Progress, Kazakhstan, 2026 Gulnaz, a strong fifty-year-old woman, has raised her three children alone and is used to controlling everything. She is preparing a lavish Kazakh wedding for her daughter — a public display of success and respectability. To protect this image, she tolerates her ex-husband’s presence and conceals her… Where Is My Son

By Elzat Eskendir Feature Film, 120 minutes, Kazakhfilm, Tanaris Production, 2024 In the turbulent landscape of post-Soviet Kazakhstan in 1993, collective farms are disbanded, and properties are set to be privatized. No one has faith that the property will be divided fairly; the leaders have long exceeded their official powers, dividing the sheep among themselves.… Abel

Ethno-horror by Aisultan Seit, 120 min Kazakhstan, December 2022. QARA Studios 1.5 MILLION KAZAKHS DIED DURING THE FAMINE GENOCIDE OF 1930–1933. DESPITE BEING ONE OF THE MOST ATROCIOUS CRIMES, IT HAS BEEN SILENCED, MUCH LIKE OTHER STALINIST ACTS. Synopsis During the colonization and artificial famine of the 1930s in Kazakh ASSR, a gravedigger Isatai picks up… QAŠ

By Darezhan OmirbayevKyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, 30 min Production Companies: Oy Art, East Wind Production Notwithstanding the layman’s opinion, art and life are two different worlds, separatedby an impassable abyss. Where there is life, there is no art, and vice versa. Young artists haveto make that difficult choice, sometimes from a rather young age. Our film is… Last Screening

by Farkhat Sharipov, 2022, Altera Pars Fifteen-year-old Masha feels trapped in a strained relationship with her parents and the monotony of her everyday life. Her escape comes in the form of Ram — charismatic, confident, and alluring — who introduces her to a world of parties, forbidden thrills, and new connections. Drawn by excitement and… Scheme

POET (AKYN) by Darezhan Omirbayev. Feature film, 105 min. Kazakhstan, 2021 East Wind Production, Kazakhfilm Didar is a poet chained to his day job in a small newspaper. But in the age of mass consumption very few still care about poetry. While reading about a rebellious 19th century figure that was executed by the authorities,… Poet

by Farkhat Sharipov, 2020, Production: Altera Pars, Centera The “18 Kilohertz” was inspired by the novel “Hardcore” by Zara Yesenaman. The story represents the realities that Kazakh teenagers lived in the 90s during the heroin boom in Almaty. Sancho and Jaga are the closest friends, one of them is from a well-to-do family, another has… 18 KiloHertz 

by Yerlan Nurmukhambetov & Lisa Takeba Set in the vast foothills of the Tian Shan mountains, The Horse Thieves is a tragic western seen largely through the eyes of twelve-year-old Olzhas. When his father leaves to sell horses in order to repay family debts, Olzhas’s last memory is the quiet return of his father’s forgotten… Horse Thieves. Roads of Time

2015, directed by Yerlan Nurmukhambetov A simple story. An ode to ordinary lives. Set in a southern Kazakh village near the town of Lenger, Walnut Tree follows a mother and her adult son, Gabit. The mother dreams of grandchildren and gently encourages him to marry. Gabit chooses Aisulu and follows the old tradition of a staged bride… Walnut Tree