Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands....

A tough and successful businessman Bolat Gazizovich wins a major construction tender, which does not bring joy to his competitors - real bandits who...

Ex-con Kermek and his beloved Eva want to leave their crime-infested lives on the Kazakh steppes behind. He has a dream: building a movie theater in...

Shokan, an unemployed bachelor, lives in a communal apartment with his mother, sister and brother. He wants to fulfill his father's dream of buying a...

The Kazakh village Karatas has long been subjugated by a criminal boss called Poshaev. He provides housing and jobs for the locals but will...

A boy is murdered in Kazakh village. Detective Bekzat wants to wrap up the inquiries quickly: after all, the perpetrator has already been found by...

After her father's untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic countryside life for the cruel city. She has to find money to pay off the...

In Almaty, a sheltered and chaste woman named Din sees her life intertwined with the experiences of a prostitute who looks like her.

After the death of his mother, Zaure learns about the existence of his father. In search of him, she comes from her native village to the city, where...