Yerken Gubashev

Les élèves d’un lycée de Karatas au Kazakhstan sont pris en otage par des inconnus armés portant des masques. Ces ravisseurs ne font pourtant aucune demande. Apprenant que l’armée n’arrivera que dans deux jours car une tempête de neige fait rage, Tazshi, le professeur de mathématiques, prend la décision de partir à l’assaut avec d’autres parents. La vie des enfants dépend alors de lui, de son ex-femme, du policier du village, d’un vétéran d’Afghanistan, d’un alcoolique, d’un professeur d’EPS et du directeur de l’école.

A tough and successful businessman Bolat Gazizovich wins a major construction tender, which does not bring joy to his competitors - real bandits who want to force him to give up the victory. On the advice of his friend, Bolat goes on a trip to another city, and his daughter's unfortunate fiancé, whom he drove out the day before, turns out to be his companion. Misha, that's the name of the groom - an ordinary district police officer who dreams of a real job with shootings and arrests of seasoned criminals. And now - the road, one car for two, two fellow travelers who do not like each other and bandits chasing them. It would seem, what can be expected from such a trip? Skirmishes, chases, fights or silence and boredom all the way?

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 the mountains. Will Kermek's love of Alain Delon be strong enough to keep them out of the violent clutches of the mafia?

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 house for the whole family, but he can't save up enough money. Having learned that a construction company is donating apartments to people with disabilities, Shokan pretends to be blind - and finds himself in a whirlpool of criminal showdowns and troubles.

The Kazakh village Karatas has long been subjugated by a criminal boss called Poshaev. He provides housing and jobs for the locals but will ruthlessly execute anyone who dares to oppose him. This is the lesson the pauper Arzu is about to learn first-hand—his wife Karina has informed the police about the crimes that are taking place there. Arzu is a cripple; now he must raise his little daughter alone. He is so helpless and grief-stricken that he doesn’t even seem to be contemplating revenge. Poshaev takes him under his wing and offers him the position of a guard at a building site. Soon Arzu has a chance to prove his loyalty, and he becomes Poshaev’s right hand. But where do Arzu’s real loyalties lie—with his boss or with the idea of justice?

Bekzat est un jeune policier qui connait déjà toutes les ficelles de la corruption des steppes kazakhes. Chargé d’étouffer une nouvelle affaire d’agressions mortelles sur des petits garçons, il est gêné par l’intervention d’une journaliste pugnace et déterminée. Les certitudes du cow-boy des steppes vacillent.

La belle Saltanat et son chevalier servant Kuandyk sont amis depuis l’enfance. Criblée de dettes, la famille de Saltanat l’envoie dans la grande ville où elle est promise à un riche mariage. Escortée par Kuandyk qui veille sur elle, Saltanat quitte son village pour l’inconnu. Les deux jeunes gens se trouvent entraînés malgré eux dans une suite d’événements cruels et tentent d’y résister de toutes les façons possibles.

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

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 the mountains. Will Kermek's love of Alain Delon be strong enough to keep them out of the violent clutches of the mafia?

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 many trials await her, including the well-known confrontation with her stepmother.