A chronicle of a few days in a small family, a story about the difficulties of human contacts, the complexity of love. The image of red apples - strong and clear, profound and lucid. Okeyev's "apple" bears a special meaning. Juices of the earth and sun, it is a lyrical symbol of happiness and...
Kyrgyzstan, the 1920s. In a remote mountain village, against the will of the local elites and in defiance of centuries-old traditions, a woman—Urkuya Salieva—is elected chair of the agricultural cooperative. Salieva is determined to build a new life with an uncompromising resolve against anyone...
In this fantasy film inspired by a Kirghiz fairy-tale and Wilhelm Hauff's "Das kalte Herz," a powerful sorcerer puts a spell on a beautiful dancer, rendering her incapable of love until an infatuated shovel operator comes along.
On her way to the Promised Land, a blind girl meets a gangster and they fall in love. Their love makes a miracle: the girl regains her sight. This romantic story ends tragically.
Longing to discover his father, a sad young boy dreams of becoming a fish and swimming to the great white ship he sees traversing Lake Issyk. Lost in his dreams, and buoyed by the pagan tales of his Central Asian grandfather, he feels a close communion with nature: so much so that when a hunter...
Sultanmurat is a 14 year old boy who lives in a small Kyrgyz village. All the men have gone off to war so he is left alone to tend to the horses who are weak with hunger.
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 thirteen, he is considered an adult by local standards. Mukai helps adults with logging, visits his father in the mountains, takes his grandmother to Lake...
High in the mountains, the forester Aktan lives alone with his mute aunt in an abandoned village. People's lives seem wrong and vain to him. But he likes his own less and less. A collision with people who predationally exploit nature forces Actan to actively interfere in their lives.
Once in a war movie, Avalbek "recognized" his father in a soldier walking with a grenade at a fascist tank. And no one dared to disabuse the boy of this.
A few former pupils of primary school teacher Aishi-Aly meet again for a party on the top of the sacred mountain that dominates their village. But what was supposed to be a joyful party turns into a nightmare...
A tiny Kyrgyz aul in the mountains is slated for demolition, and its people must move to a collective farm. Young shepherd Kanat sets out for the city to study, but after being deceived, he chooses to stay, realizing he must first learn the art of living among people. The village elders, guided by...
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, pausing to rest and talking about life, memories, and moments from the past, the stairwell becomes a space where stories, encounters, and quiet...
