Kyrgyzstan

The Light Thief - Svet-Ake

The Light Thief - Svet-Ake (2010)

They call him "Svet-ake" ("Mr. Light"). The electrician is responsible for bringing more than just light to the people around him. Like moths, everybody is drawn to his kindness: those with short circuits in their electricity, and those with short circuits in their marriage, those who have taken all the power in the city, and those who have given up the will to live. He helps everyone and is everywhere. More

The Light Thief - Svet-Ake (DVD)
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The Light Thief

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Pure Coolness - Boz Salkyn

Pure Coolness - Boz Salkyn (2007)

Is it possible to justify the bride kidnapping if “he” and “she” will create a happy family after that? People marry by mutual agreement and love. And it happens that they marry of parents’ interests will. But Kyrgyz people have such a custom when the bride is kidnapped. Rural herder Sagyn’s mother decides to marry her son to a modest girl Anara with parents of whom she has already come to an agreement. More

Pure Coolness (DVD)
DVD

Pure Coolness

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

Saratan

Saratan (2005)

Discontentment reigns in a Kyrgyzian village: money is not flowing as expected, everyone is trying to arrange his own business, if necessary secretly, communism is still finding adherents and the rustler Taschmat is at work, pursued by the village police man Salamat. The villagers belief in better times is weak, as well as their belief in a fair God. Be it Allah or Jehova, they prefer devoting themselves to terrestrial joy. More

Saratan (DVD)
DVD

Saratan

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

Beshkempir

Beshkempir (1998)

Beshkempir (The Adopted Son) takes its title from the name of the boy whose story it tells. His life is sunny and carefree, spent in childhood games, until the day he hears terrible news from his playmates: he is not his parents’ biological child. Overnight, his best friend becomes his rival and the young girl of his dreams starts going bicycling with somebody else. His pleasant and peaceful existence is over: if his parents are not his own, Beshkempir feels he has lost his whole identity. More

Beshkempir - The Adopted Son (DVD)
DVD

Beshkempir

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00