Tolubay The Critic

Bakai is an old shepherd who lives in the country while his children have long grown accustomed to life in the city. When his youngest son pays him a visit, Bakai wants him to stay and help with the rigors of rural living.

Inspired by Kyrgyz fairy-tales. When people have to select a new lord, they turn to a falcon for help.

Teenager Mukai spends most of the year in a remote Kyrgyz village with his grandmother while his parents work in a secluded mountain area. At thirteen, he is considered an adult by local standards. Mukai helps adults with logging, visits his father in the mountains, takes his grandmother to Lake Issyk-Kul where she first met Mukai's grandfather, herds horses to the dock, and interacts with city visitors at the lake.

As numbers quarrel after disagreeing which number is the strongest, two children realize the true meaning of strength in numbers.

After falling prey to an eagle, a young hunter named Olokon has to find his way out of an eagle's nest and fights a dragon to save his new friends.

After an injured wolf gets left behind by his wolf pack, a kind she-goat nurses him back to health.

An evocative animated film on the life and works of the great Kyrgyz poet Alykul Osmonov.

A young man agrees to be buried in a rampart to save his community from invaders.

A film about boys dreaming of becoming astronauts. Two friends built an entire spaceport, stole their friend’s puppy Sharik for experiments and renamed him Marsik, trained by eating only herring paste from a tube, and fought with a greedy speculator named Zakurdaev, who mined his garden to keep the boys from sneaking in.

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 boy and feels happy.

A capricious lord who is blind in one eye orders a portrait from three painters, threatening to condemn them to death should the results displease him.

A once-mighty lion is now too old to hunt. A vulture tells him to join a zoo. Will the lion choose freedom or a comfortable life behind bars?

A history of man subjugating nature told through the medium of cave art.

In a family of hares, one brother is docile and one is adventurous. When the two face danger, their friendship is tested.

A brave old man accepts a challenge to a fight with an evil giant.

The journey of sculptor Akzholtoy begins with a somber telegram: Esengeldi, a close family friend, has passed away. Returning to his village with his mother to honor the memory of Esengeldi, Akzholtoy finds himself enveloped by the echoes of his own distant childhood.