Bayan Sarygulov

On her way to the Promised Land, a blind girl meets a gangster and they fall in love. Their love makes a miracle: the girl regains her sight. This romantic story ends tragically.

A parable about an evil dragon who has captured the “magic light”, without which people are forced to live in darkness. Mother Earth gives birth to three sons-heroes, who one by one set out to bring light to people. But the insidious dragon exposes the heroes to temptations, from which they themselves turn into monsters...

Story of a rough little boy in Kazakh society in the last years of the USSR, owes something to the Italian neo realist movement of the 1940s.

A young camel wakes up one day to find a shrub growing where his tail used to be.

In a hunger-stricken village, a hunter has to find a way to keep his beloved eagle alive. Based on a Kyrgyz fairy-tale.