Darezhan Omirbayev

A young man gets into an accident and now owes people money. He lives in present day Almaty, Kazakhstan, where jobs are scarce. So he turns to ...

A film director takes to the road on a trip to visit his sick mother and we follow his thoughts and human encounters along the way. Release: The ...

Jasulan suffers from heart disease. To treat him, his mother took him to Alma-Ata, the capital of Kazkahstan. The child discovers the big city. ...

Chouga is a beautiful, rich and beloved young woman. She is thirty and lives in Astana, the Kazak new capital. She is married to a famous ...

Living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a young man is preparing to become a bus conductor. One day, in between wandering the city streets, and going to ...

A roughly faithful adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” set in Almaty by Kazakh filmmaker Darezhan Omirbayev A ...

One hot summer afternoon, two boys try to earn the cash for a movie in this beautiful evocation of the landscape of childhood. Release: July 1988 ...

This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo’s NO DAY OFF (39 min) records ...