Popular Des de Kyrgyzstan

Last Lesson is about social problems of high school students: school racketeering, relationships with parents, education, positive and negative role...

Based on a story from Talip Ibraimov’s collection „The Old man and the Angel“. Angels can be heralds of positive or negative...

A lonely watchman lives in a rocky cemetery near a small town. Obviously, his life among people did not work out, but here he found his peace.

A rural high school student Burul is interested in wrestling. The wrestling coach won't let her train at the boys' gym, so she trains at home alone....

One day in the life of a boy who wishes he could make an ancestral human dream come true and fly. With a machine he has made himself and with the...

Based on true events, several stories about disempowerment of women, are closely intertwined, affecting to each other's, unfolding against the...

Two years ago, Asya from Moscow met Zhanybek, a taxi driver from Kyrgyzstan. They fell in love and began to live together. At the beginning of 2021,...

A pair of crows attempt to help their little son find his calling in life.

Aktan Abdykalikov's simple, clear-eyed poetry finds an elemental form here. Two twin brothers are walking down the road carrying a pail of water,...

This time, Sapar and Katya are planning a crazy trip to distant India. Naturally, they invite their friends to fly with them. Bakyt would be happy to...

Lyrical tragicomedy. The eyes of the young hero, who will go through the rite of circumcision, shows the life of a Kyrgyz village on a holiday day.

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

After the Kyrgyzstan Independence in 1991, the ancient practice of Ala-Kachuu ("grab and run") returned. Some women escape the men that kidnap them,...

In a remote Kyrgyz village where gold mining and poaching rule, an investigator begins to see inherited visions that reveal a dark connection between...

An elderly craftswoman passes on the secrets of making ala kiyiz to a group of young girls from the city. Watching their efforts, she sees a...

At the house of an elderly childless couple, about seventy years old, with poor health, living in a small village, unknown people leave a...

Traditionally a woman receives a pair of earrings as a gift when a man proposes to her. They might not be previously acquainted and their marriage...

Every weekend, his father takes Keku to the village. The boy's mother is in migration, and dad is tired of parental worries. In the village, the boy...

Suyun, the beloved, youngest daughter of the Sultanbekova family, mysteriously goes missing one afternoon. A devastating phone call reveals that she...

Portrait of Saiakbai Karalaev, one of the last bards of the "manas," a Kyrgyz national epic.