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- Based on the novella The White Ship, by Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov, Shambala tells the story of a lonely, impressionable, seven-year-old boy who lives in a protected forest, high in the mountains, with his grandfather, step-grandmother, auntie and uncle. He spends his time exploring and listening to legends from his grandfather, in particular tales about the sacred Mother Deer. The world of myths and folklore eventually conflict with the harsh reality of the world of adults, who are faced with their own personal problems and dilemmas.
- The relevant epic story of the strong-willed, courageous and independent woman before her time, Kurmanjan, who is revered to this day for her diplomacy for saving her nation from complete destruction when the Russians invaded.
- A man who has lost his memory while working in Russia and returns to Kyrgyzstan for the first time in 20 years.
- After living as an immigrant in the USA for 15 years, Azat flies to Kyrgyzstan to his family village. His father, Murat, died in the USA a year ago. It was his dying wish to pay back the money he owed to the villagers. Azat discovers the family home derelict. Choro, the younger brother of Murat, and their relations left a long time ago. Despite most villagers not liking him, Azat repairs the family home and repays the money his father owed. One day, Choro, who was imprisoned because of Murat, arrives and the most important question about Murat's will is decided.
- An odd couple of lost souls share an uneasy friendship while riding a motorcycle on a lonely stretch of moonlit highway.
- Damir is being threatened in an abandoned factory. Loan sharks even go to his home, where his pregnant wife, Cholpon, and their young daughter are. The loan sharks harass the family, even to the point of writing "home for sale" on the exterior of their house. Damir desperately tries to borrow money from his relatives, friends, and anyone else he knows; Cholpon also struggles to prevent the worst from happening. To the couple, every second is urgent, but their conversations are concise; their actions plain. With occasional silences and pauses, the film indifferently watches the couple's pressing circumstances, and paradoxically such indifference adds to the tension. Driven to a dead end, each makes the best choice for themselves. Yet ironically their choices are incompatible, and this irony shows the present state of Kyrgyzstan.
- A preteen boy falls in love with an older girl and spends many happy hours in her company. However, when a young sailor shows up in their village, heartbreak follows.
- A bitter dispute between two brothers over a local village girl leads to unforeseen and tragic circumstances.
- Pati, a student of journalism, decides to shoot her graduation film in Dzhabana in Kyrgyzstan. She is specially interested in the provincial town's vicinity to the nearby state frontier, which plays a major role in many of the townspeople's lives. Some see the border every day on their way to and from work, others cross it to go shopping, and for those involved in smuggling, the frontier is a lucrative source of income. Shima, Kycha and Baton belong to the third category, and use a stretch of fallow ground to smuggle goods in their home-made four-wheel drive. Pati bumps into the threesome soon after her arrival in Dzhabana, when she recognizes her freshly stolen camera in the hands of its new owner: Baton. Pati strikes up an ambiguous relationship with the gang. She joins their tours as an observer at first, but soon takes a more active part. Then Shima comes up with a scheme to smuggle a stolen luxury vehicle: a cross-border wedding procession with the bridal couple in the limousine and Pati playing the bride. But the exhilaration of playing cops and- robbers vanishes abruptly when they discover they are to take back home a small package with content lethal enough to tear the group apart. One member of the gang is only interested in the money, another longs to be on the right side in the eternal struggle between Good and Evil. And involvement in that confrontation can be fatal, whatever the eventual outcome.
- Discontentment reigns in a Kyrgyzian village: money is not flowing as expected, everyone is trying to arrange his own business, if necessary secretly.
- The hero hurries to his native village to celebrate the birth of his long-awaited grandson, but on the way he meets border guards. For the capture of the offender, they are entitled to a bonus, and therefore they do not want to let the old man go to his loved ones.
- President of Kyrgyztan meets a tramp and becomes interested in the story of his life. He knows out that the tramp was a businessman but one day has lost everything.
- Brief notes on tiredness.
- In a remote rural village in Kyrgyzstan an unexpected visitor from the past suddenly bursts into the calm, measured life of the elderly Bermet and her husband Kanybek to reveal a past traumatic relationship of all three. In two days the fate of the characters will be revealed: their hopes, unrealized dreams, humility and fear, joy and despair. The whole palette of complex human relationships in a tiny space of a private courtyard in this remote, yet classic, love triangle.