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Born of History 2024
The documentary is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Honored Worker of Kazakhstan, Opinion Prize winner, writer, screenwriter and film director Sadul-Satybaldy Narymbetov. His name is occupied by writing the golden fund of Kazakh cinema, and his works are considered a classic national cinema.
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Abel 2024
The year is 1993. The time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, when collective farms and state farms are disbanded, and property is subject to division and privatization. In a collective farm in Southern Kazakhstan, no one has faith that the property will be divided fairly: the leaders have long exceeded their official powers and divided the sheep among themselves. The hero of the picture would also like to receive his share in the division. As a result, after going through many difficulties, he will face a serious moral choice...
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Steppenwolf 2024    star_border 8
Tamara is searching for her missing son in a small town consumed by riots and violence. In a desperate attempt to get him back, she decides to offer a reward to an amoral former investigator whose methods prove to be sadistic. Determined, Tamara decides to complete the mission with the nihilistic detective, no matter what the cost.
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Last Judgment 2024
The film is dedicated to the upcoming 150th anniversary of the birth of Kazakh writer and public figure Akhmet Baitursynov next year. Filming began in Almaty in November.
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Operation Nabat 2024
The film is based on the events of 1992 that took place in Southern Kazakhstan, when prisoners who escaped during the transfer to Russia took a regular bus with passengers hostage. The best forces of Kazakhstan's national security and law enforcement were dispatched to rescue them.
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The Battle for the Motherland 2024
A young girl Almagul is studying to be a cinematographer and goes to the front line to find her lover on the battlefield.
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Zhambyl. A New Era 2024
The film is based on elements of parallel editing, where the motivation of Zhambyl's actions and image are revealed through those difficulties and life changes that influenced his life. His life was not easy and simple, he had to go through a lot of cruel trials and this gave him the very human wisdom, insight that makes an ordinary person a legend.
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Almaty, I Love You! 2024
Six touching stories in the city of dreams, hope and love.
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Adam and Alma 2024
A businessman mired in debt goes to an apple orchard inherited from his father to sell it and settle financial problems. But it turns out that the garden is not empty: it is inhabited by people who are fighting for the preservation of the Almaty airport, and the ghosts of his own past.
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Fragrant Heart 2023
An alcoholic and an abuser, after leaving prison, receives a donor heart. After the operation, he notices that something strange is happening to him. Perhaps it's the former owner of the heart? After all, he was a primary school teacher...
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The Land Where Winds Stood Still 2023
Windy steppes of Kazakhstan. Starving people ravenously eat donkeys and their weaker comrades. Frantic, raw, gripping, and cannibalistic western inspired by testimonies of the historical Great Famine of the 1930s. Ruthless Jupar with her two boys Jolan and Boshay runs for survival to reach her childhood village with hopes to find living relatives. A mother with no tears to cry endures rains, sandstorms, feverish famine, poisoned crops, hungry vultures, rotten meat, and greedy betrayals. Jupar will have to steal, cut throats, and protect her and others’ children to witness fates worse than death.
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Burkit 2023
Three friends serve in special forces, their daily tasks are to confront dangerous criminal groups. In one of the confrontations they will have to test their friendship.
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Scream 2023
Mels, who was born without legs, lives in a small rural village with his young son. Although there is a weapons testing site near the village, Mels and other village residents maintained a peaceful life. At some point, Mels' body and the weapons test, meaning nuclear testing, begin to become interconnected. And the village is in turmoil surrounding the nuclear test.
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Bauryna Salu 2023    star_border 7.5
Following an old nomadic tradition 'Bauryna Salu', a boy Yersultan, was given after his birth to be raised by his grandmother. He grew up with resentment and disconnection from his parents. When he turns twelve, his grandmother dies and he has to move back with his family which he barely knows. Yersultan's coming of age process coincides with an unbearable transformation and an attempt to restore the relationship between him and his parents, especially his father.
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The Snowstorm 2023
The events take place in Soviet times. The end of the 80s of the last century. A young guy, out of urgent need, goes to a neighboring village in a blizzard. Lost on the way, he finds someone's house. During a conversation with the owners, he realizes that he has crossed the border of China. At first glance, there is nothing too remarkable about this story. But there is one peculiarity: an ordinary person in his simple and everyday life can perform great heroic deeds.
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Oliara 2023
The 30s of the last century. Hungarian Istvan Magyar, a member of the International Communist International, is sentenced to death by firing squad. However, he is being sent from Moscow to the Kazakh steppe to atone for his "political guilt." He gets into the operational detachment of the OGPU of Karabai, which is engaged in the search and confiscation of Kulak cattle. The photographer of the Red Army detachment, Istvan Magyar, on a campaign across the winter steppe for the cattle of the poor, changes his views on the revolution. From the position of a European and a humanist, Istvan is stunned by the Holodomor and the brutality of the OGPU fighters. A Hungarian communist rebels and finds like-minded locals in Kubabas village. Together they are trying to fight the red tyranny.
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Lonely Yurt 2023
Pakhraddin’s Aul migrated south to escape from the arbitrariness of the Goloshchekin’s government, who took their livestock and it is in trouble in the sands of Turkmenistan. The head of the clan, Biy Pakhraddin, decides to return to the Karakalpak city of Kungrad in order to save people. And people, having left their yurts in the sand, are walking on foot back to an unfamiliar city, where an unknown fate awaits them. Pakhraddin and his wife Syrga, having distributed the last pieces of bread to the children, send them to the city, and they die themselves of hunger in the sand.
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Return of the Sea 2023
A modern popular science film about the Aral Sea.
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Soldier of Love 2023
Beibut is a young musician who is confidently moving towards his dream. Getting used to the role of a father, Beibut tries to find a balance between creativity and family life. Everything goes well until he meets Zhul, a dancer who falls in love with him.
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The Village 2022
A young filmmaker gets an assignment to shoot a film and finds himself in an unfamiliar environment - an aul (kazakh village). A young man from the city is immersed in a completely different world. The life of the small village is full of intrigues, conflicts and dramas, to which the protagonist becomes a participant. Step by step he begins to understand and accept everything that is happening. The film ends with a celebration - the circumcision of a small child. This ancient Kazakh ritual brings people together again. Grievances and arguments are forgotten. The joy of being returns to people's souls. The film is a statement that if money is evil, and it is ineradicable, then kindness lives in any person soul , and it is also ineradicable.
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