Comrade Policeman

Aliya, a 36 year old Kazakh lesbian, has, for the first time in her life, tried to play the Green Card Lottery and won. Now she cannot decide whether to leave Kazakhstan or stay. On one hand, Aliya is tired of the stagnation, corruption, and dictatorship of the Kazakh society, she wants changes in her life. But on the other, she is afraid of uncertainty and to start all over again in a foreign country.

Dina works as a journalist for the national television station. The stories she is asked to report on are becoming increasingly absurd and full of praise for the government. Her love life is limited to a few secret meetings with her married camera­man. Dina looks after her young sis­ter, a lesbian activist, who regularly finds herself in trouble with the au­thorities.

Scaredy-cat

In a Kazakh town, a 65-year-old woman is told by police that her daughter fled a bar bill. Investigating, she discovers her daughter dead and bruised at home, abandoned by her husband. Corruption plagues the police response. After a local vagrant shares video proof of the husband and a complicit officer beating her daughter, the helpless mother is forced by corrupt police to simply pay the outstanding bar bill.