Atai Omurbekov

Алдар. Махаббат туралы аңыз

He appears where someone needs help, and disappears before they have time to thank him. People say that when fate puts a person in front of a difficult choice, someone called Aldar is bound to be somewhere nearby.

Deal at the Border

At the Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border, Aza and Samat work as members of a drug trafficking organization. One day, they run into Nazik, who has narrowly escaped from human traffickers.

The Carousel

In the life of Aydai, there is no one except her younger sister. In order to take care of her, Ayday has to engage in prostitution. But one day she decides to start a new life, and it turns out to be not so easy.

How a Boy Saved His City

As his city faces the threat of being conquered by an evil lord, a brave boy decides to take matters in his own hands.

Kurak

Based on true events, several stories about disempowerment of women, are closely intertwined, affecting to each other's, unfolding against the background of the traditional, patriarchal society of modern-day Kyrgyzstan ultimately result in a series of tragic outcomes. The realities of modern-day Kyrgyzstan, despite the status of a "secular state", are violence, hypocrisy, and widespread infringement of the rights of women who are stay a socially unprotected part of the population. Under the conditions of aggressive propaganda of both patriarchal and radical, religious ideology, the ideas of feminism in Kyrgyzstan are equated with the popularization of LGBTQ communities, are openly criticized and the justice system, in most cases, takes the side of murderers and rapists.