Kazakhstan Movies

In the 1920-30s, 70% of the indigenous population died from the Great Famine created by the Bolsheviks in Kazakhstan. Overcoming the dreadful fear of...

Dyslexic boy dreams of the skies, defying limitations in pursuit of his passion.

Five teenage girls forge a strong friendship after a chance encounter. Their carefree days take a risky turn, testing their loyalty. Crossing a line...

A Kazakh villager has to take care of his pregnant sister-in-law after his brother is thrown in jail.

A boy is murdered in Kazakh village. Detective Bekzat wants to wrap up the inquiries quickly: after all, the perpetrator has already been found by...

Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands....

Single mother Madina teaches dance by day and works at a burlesque club by night. Fending off men’s advances, she raises a two-year-old...

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract...

A story about the harsh times during colonization and famine of the 1930’s. The main character, gravedigger Isatai, played by Yerkebulan...

To do with himself in this world - the eternal question of youth. On the boys and girls wander from lane to lane, from apartment to apartment, get...

A documentary about how classmates make a pseudo-documentary film.

The president Nursultan Nazarbayev announces the transfer of the capital from Almaty to Akmola. Task is almost impossible: to transfer the capital...

Seung-joo, an assistant documentary director, hopes to direct his own work, but leaves for Kazakhstan to assist in filming a traditional...

A young man Danesh learns of ancient relics, including a ruby that once a year can help find treasure in the Canyon of Scorpio. As the old man...

Sayan has survived the accident but 10 years later the past comes after him.

Ex-con Kermek and his beloved Eva want to leave their crime-infested lives on the Kazakh steppes behind. He has a dream: building a movie theater in...

Vocal Parallels is a surreal, impressionistic concert of classical opera pieces performed by several retired Soviet opera divas: Roza Dzhamanova,...

Spurred by his own postmodern musings and the growing inequality, corruption, and kill-or-be-killed ethic of post-Soviet Kazakhstan, a solitary...