Tag Archives: Kirghiz

Centaur
6.6

Centaur

Dec. 28, 2017

Centaur

Centaur is a quiet, small and modest man, a loving father of a little boy that has never spoken a word and the husband of young, deaf-mute ...
Goodbye, Gyulsary!
7.4

Goodbye, Gyulsary!

Dec. 01, 1969

Goodbye, Gyulsary!

Based on Chingiz Aitmatov’s novel “Farewell, Gyulsary!” The story of Tanabai the blacksmith, father of three children, who upon ...
Heavenly Nomadic
6.8

Heavenly Nomadic

Jul. 04, 2015

Heavenly Nomadic

A family of nomads live in the high, remote mountains of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia; elderly herdsman Tabyldy, his wife Karachach, their ...
The Adopted Son
6.9

The Adopted Son

Aug. 11, 1998

The Adopted Son

In a Kyrgyz village, five older women adopt an infant foundling. Jump ahead about 12 years: the boy, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, ...
The Chimp
6.2

The Chimp

May. 01, 2001

The Chimp

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 ...
Tengri: Blue Heavens
6.5

Tengri: Blue Heavens

Jul. 10, 2008

Tengri: Blue Heavens

This is a love story set in the steppes of Central Asia of today. Temür a thirty year old Kazakh decides to start life again in his ancestral ...
Jamilia
6.5

Jamilia

Feb. 18, 2018

Jamilia

Jamilia is the heroine of the classic Kyrgyz novel about a young woman who, having been forced to marry, fled with her lover. Fifty years later, ...