Kyrgyzstan Movies

"The Lake" tells the story of a girl named Jyldys who lives with her family in a village by the Issyk-Kul. Her life is hard. Her classmates tease her...

Year 2009. A small town on the shores of Issyk-Kul. Aktan, a schoolboy who dreams of joining the ranks of the National Security Committee, is faced...

The cooperation of Central Asian countries such as Kyrgyzstan helps Russia resist Western economic sanctions. Due to the country’s strategic...

Mini-almanac created by teenagers - about fears and concerns. What are these fears? In today's troubled world, what causes danger? Darkness, height...

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,...

It has been a lifelong dream of Kyrgyz director Melis Ubukeyev to create an elaborate film version of the Kyrgyz national epic 'Manas'. He spent...

Art and life are different worlds, separated by an impassable abyss. Where there is life, there is no art, and vice versa. Young artists have to make...

This is a love story set in the steppes of Central Asia of today. Temür a thirty year old Kazakh decides to start life again in his ancestral...

Victor and Nadezhda are husband and wife. She is an ordinary budget employee, he is a wheelchair-bound invalid. They are orphans and vegetate in this...

In a remote Kyrgyz village, Beshkempir, an infant foundling, is taken in by five older women and later adopted by a couple unable to bear children of...

Shy and sometimes naive schoolboy Sashka lives with his grandmother and confides his secrets to a smart speaker because he has no friends. But Sashka...

In the Central Asian steppe, Kyrgyz herders live in conflict with a ghost. In winter, at -20 below zero, the last cabin in the valley awaits the...

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

The hardships of modern life for one of the families, unhappy in its own way and at the same time recognizable to others. A husband and wife are...

A woman traverses a harsh, snow-covered desert in heavy boots, pulling a suitcase. On her journey, she meets a man who woos her and promises to love...

In Kyrgyz tradition, various cosmic customs existed that were associated with braiding, letting hair loose, and cutting. The ritual of hair braiding...

Each September, Bolot Tagaev and his family practice a centuries old tradition, harvesting walnuts in one of the oldest walnut forests in Kyrgyzstan....

Esen, a young man who has been expelled from his village, escapes with the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the village. Whilst being...

"Ereze" tells the story of Aibek, a teenager from a Kyrgyz village near the Tajik border, raised by his grandmother. After his grandmother's death,...

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...