Popular Des de Kyrgyzstan

The craft of carpet weaving in Kyrgyzstan boasts a long and legendary history, and is an integral part of local life. Turdugul, known as the most...

The forty-year-old commentator, summing up his life and realizing that his well-being is purely external and essentially nothing significant has been...

After Mira's husband mysteriously disappears, she is thrust on a journey to uncover his secret double life.

After a brave young man disobeys the authorities by refusing to abandon his father, the old man covertly helps him by using his wisdom and wit.

Portrait of Saiakbai Karalaev, one of the last bards of the "manas," a Kyrgyz national epic.

In the remote village of Kök-Tash, Kyrgyzstan, where conservative norms confine women to domestic duties, an activist organizes a women's...

A rural high school student Burul is interested in wrestling. The wrestling coach won't let her train at the boys' gym, so she trains at home alone....

Twelve-year-old Jekshen, an exceptional runner, lives in a beautiful mountain village in Kyrgyzstan. His parents are divorced, and life with his...

A story about the life of an old woman named Burma. Coarsened and hardened in soul, she becomes attached and imbued with maternal love for a strange...

Kalman, released from the colony under an amnesty, turns out to be the only one who comes to the aid of a woman whose child was kidnapped...

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...

Loan sharks harass Damir and his family, even to the point of writing “home for sale” on the exterior of their house. Damir desperately...

Sequel to the hit Kirgiz horror film.

Zamir and Ainura want nothing more than to start a family, but when they adopt a quiet young boy named Ulan following a devastating miscarriage, they...

One day, Nazar walks into the studio of his partner’s ex-husband, Arsen. He looks around his computer and finds something that changes his...