Aktan Arym Kubat Movies

Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the center of attention when he is caught stealing a...

The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines. He is the last link in a huge...

A woman is led by her family to her new husband's home, to live with, presumably, his elderly mother and younger brother. Despite being forced into...

An amnesiac old man Zarlyk who after twenty-three years of ordeal in a foreign land, returns to his homeland. Events take place in a village in...

In a remote Kyrgyz village, Beshkempir, an infant foundling, is taken in by five older women and later adopted by a couple unable to bear children of...

The fate of stray dogs of town, who wander around seeking their puppies. There are different types of dogs: those who win at contests, those working...

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,...

The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in...

The second film by Kyrgyzstani director Aktan Arym Kubat (then credited by his Russian name Aktan Abdykalykov), it is the first of his...

A family of nomads lives in the remote high mountains of Kyrgyzstan...

Serikpai and Amir grow up without a father, who once went to work in Russia, but never returned. They are waiting for him and hoping. Waiting for her...

A puzzling fable about human relations inspired by Samuel Beckett (in Kyrgyz, beket means station). At a bus stop amid a snowy winter landscape,...

In the center of the plot are three friends, three old men who swore in the name of the happiness of their friend Kaltay to marry him, no matter...

A river reflects everything without carrying it away. But time — it takes everything away without reflecting anything... A story about...