Sharip

The life of three university friends, Anuar, Damir, and Askar, seemed simple and straightforward. Their goal was to graduate, become engineers, and, if lucky, party workers. But when the Union collapsed, burying their bright prospects, they must navigate a new reality dictated by the elusive allure of the 'market.' They successfully trade in video cassettes, cookies, T-shirts, bulbs - anything profitable. Drunk on money and success, they are oblivious to the larger, more dangerous predators lurking in these waters, not all of whom play fair.

Drama

Crime

Kazakhstan

Businessmen

Бизнесмены

Amidst World War II, two Soviet soldiers, Vano and Bakhytzhan, from different republics, battled together for their motherland, becoming the best of friends. A severe injury took Bakhytzhan's life, but before his death, he made Vano promise to unite their families. Decades later, the promise remains unfulfilled. Aging Vano sends his grandsons Buba and Nino to Kazakhstan to find Bakhytzhan's granddaughter and fulfill the ancient vow. But scatterbrained Buba loses the bride's address upon arrival...

Adventure

Georgia

More than love

Больше, чем любовь

At 16, Arsen moves to a big city with his mother and enrolls in one of Almaty's most prestigious schools. He excels in sports and dreams of becoming a soldier like his father, who died in Afghanistan. However, the new environment has its own rules. Here, everyone is divided into districts and defends their rights with their fists. Arsen is drawn to this daring 'street' world filled with forbidden pleasures, street hooliganism, and petty crimes. He falls in love with the sister of a local authority figure and embarks on a path of self-destruction that's nearly impossible to leave.

Districts

Районы

Maxat, an ambitious but scatterbrained assistant director at a local TV station, inadvertently leaves a suitcase full of money in a taxi instead of paying for his sister's wedding venue. Faced with an impossible task to quickly find and replace such a large sum, Maxat comes up with a bold plan: to turn his sister's wedding into a live television show. The director is quickly convinced, always ready for ratings-boosting experiments. However, Maxat decides not to tell his family the truth. But soon after the celebration begins, his father starts to suspect something...

Comedy

Show at all costs

Той любой ценой

Arthur Hamzatov is the chief editor of a foreign glossy magazine branch. He's a committed careerist, ready to do anything for a promotion. When his long-awaited promotion is almost within his reach, an unexpected obstacle appears. In a conversation with the management, Arthur mentioned that polygamy in Kazakhstan is supposedly common. Now his boss demands a scandalous article about a man with two wives, or else someone else will get promoted. To wriggle out of this tricky situation, Arthur claims he himself has two wives. Now he must find a suitable subordinate to play the role of his second wife, convince his legal spouse to play along, and prove to a Moscow journalist, who came to write a report about him, that all of this is not a farce, but real life.

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