Bakhitzhan Alpeisov

The young Kazakh city girl Ainur wrestles with life. Everything and everybody seems to be against her: school, family, her best friend. But Ainur is no push-over. Fighting at school and unhappy at home with her pregnant mother and drunken stepdad, petulant, tomboyish teen Ainur quits high school. She aimlessly bounces around Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan, encountering a cross-section of the population as she goes.

While the district administration prepares for the arrival of high-ranking guests, local alcoholic Sadyq Ospanovich solves intergalactic problems. Two large-scale events, developing simultaneously, lead to an inevitable conflict. The life-weary saleswoman Nadezhda and the naive policeman Baur find themselves between two fires.

Single mother Gulzhan discovers that her daughter Dana has gone missing. Soon it becomes clear that the girl was abducted by elderly villagers and taken to an aul inhabited only by old people, where she is being prepared for an ancient ritual.

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...

The story of Jerken, a young stage director, obsessed with his love for and his life with the theater. Something terrible has happened, a girl has been murdered. In Jerken's diary, he deals with four themes: theater, dreams, the woman he loved, and a friend. An investigator shows up and takes the diary with him. He tries to reveal the reasons for this tragedy. The main theme of the film is the quest for inner harmony, for a balance between the human soul and objective reality.

The main character of Zhandos is a conman. One day, he finds himself in a situation where he needs to return the stolen money, and decides to pull off a major scam. To realize his idea, Zhandos decides that he needs a fictional family, and gathers it from the same scammers as him…

The story of young accordionist who lives in a small post-war village on the south of Soviet Kazakhstan.

He is a student, who believes in a true love. He writes short stories. One day he accidentally meets her. She is beautiful, but unpredictable. Not the type he has always dreamed of. She forces into his life, changing everything he was used to, and brings new adventures, which are sometimes painful for him. After sometime, he fells in love with her, but... one day, she disappears from his life, changing his life forever...

A young man comes home to his Kazakh village after finishing up his stint in the Soviet Army. All that he finds are his old friends drinking, senselessly carousing, tumbling into one violent brawl after another.

Chess player Tigran unknowingly swallows a stolen ruby at the end of a tournament in Almaty and flies to Armenia. Felix must get back the ruby no matter what.