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Three friends, Ruslan, Kaysar, and Aibyn, undergo trials to earn the maroon beret of a special forces unit. Ruslan and Kaysar are first-timers, while Aibyn is on his third attempt. Only one of them is destined to make the final cut.

This is the story of the life of the great queen of of the steppe - legendary Tomiris. She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of close people and unite the Scythian/Saka tribes under her authority.

Tamara searches for her missing son in a violent town. She hires a morally questionable ex-detective to find him. His methods are cruel but she is determined to find her son whatever the cost.

Thirteen-year-old Aisholpan trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her nomad family to become an eagle huntress.

A historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country's three warring tribes.

Single mother Alina tries to enroll her son, Serik, in an elite military academy, but he is bullied by his classmates because of his girlish appearance, and the principal deems him unfit for the school.

Soviet Kazakhstan, 1930s, a time marked by Stalin's rapid collectivization of farms and the most brutal famine the modern world had ever seen. Local gravedigger, Isatay, must face a difficult choice.

The story of Kasym Khan, whose time of coverage is considered to be the heyday of the Kazakh Khanate

This is a survival story - a Hemingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' as if written for our days.

Diamond Sword is a large-scale historical drama of first Kazakh Khans, which BBC called "Kazakh Game Of Thrones". The action takes place in the XV century, and the plot demonstrates the key events in formation of Kazakh statehood under the leadership of Khans Zhanibek and Kerey.

A universal story about the freedom of the human spirit and the struggle against slavery and despotism, about love, loss and betrayal. It is seen through the eyes of simple Kazakh kids and teenagers.

70% of indigenous population of Kazakhstan died during the Great Famine, artificially imposed on people in the 1920s by the Bolsheviks. Overcoming blind fear of death and despair, an eagle hunter Turar tries to save his family.

Following an old nomadic tradition 'bauryna salu', a boy Yersultan, was given after his birth to be raised by his grandmother. When he turns twelve, his grandmother dies and he has to move back with his family which he barely knows.

On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It's dry, dusty, and windy; too many lambs are stillborn. Against this backdrop, Asa, a dreamer who's slight of build and recently finished with a stint in the Russian Navy, tries to establish a life on the steppes. He, his friend Boni, and Ondas call on Tulpan, the only single girl in the area. The men talk to her parents while she listens out of sight. Her answer and Asa's later trips to talk to her form an arc of hope against the harsh land. Is this the place of Asa's dreams? What about the other lambs?

Fifteenth century. In the vast expanses of Eurasia for several centuries, the descendants of the great Genghis Khan have created their own and crushed the alien states. One of them is the legendary Abulkhair Shaibani, who usurped power in the White Horde. The two legitimate heirs to the throne, Kerei and Zhanibek, call the part of the nomadic tribes to leave the hard ruler. After migrating from the far west of Desht-i-Kipchak to Mogolistan in Zhetysu, they revive their ancient shanyrak Ak Orda, the Kazakh Khanate. The first khan elected a direct descendant of Jochi and Urus Khan, Sultan Kerey. Here it is, the promised land when you can live peacefully and freely. But the enemies are trying to strangle the fragile Kazakh khanate even in the cradle and bloody battles, severe trials, the bitterness of losses and the joy of victories await them.

Tolik has a third child on the way, yet nothing else is going right for the breadwinner. Shuttling between bread deliveries and family crises, Tolik struggles to find the words to match his precarious circumstances.

A newly married woman, who was married off after being raped, turns her family's life into a real nightmare.

It's summer 1992, a month before the collapse of the Soviet empire.

A boy is killed in an aul (Kazakh village). Detective Bekzat wants to end an investigation quickly: a crime perpetrator is already found by local police officers after all.

A group of teenagers face challenges like family issues, peer pressure, poverty, and violence. Some pursue music, others consider crime. They strive to find their way amid obstacles.

Windy steppes of Kazakhstan. A starving people voraciously eat donkeys and their weaker companions. A frenetic, raw, passionate and cannibalistic Western inspired by accounts of the historic Great Famine of the 1930s.

The story of several generations of a Kazakh family from the 1930s to the present time, the film traces the most momentous events in the history of Kazakhstan through war, separation and the determination of the clan to remain united.