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- Film depicts true stories of Kyrgyzstan's "bride kidnapping", where distorted tradition leads men to abduct and force women into marriage. Umut (19), a nurse in the suburbs, becomes an unwitting victim.
- A family of nomads live in the high, remote mountains of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia; elderly herdsman Tabyldy, his wife Karachach, their daughter-in-law Shaiyr and their 7 year old granddaughter Umsunai. Shaiyr's son studies in the city and visits them only during the summer holidays. Her husband died many years ago when he was drowned in a mountain river, trying to save a foal. Shaiyr decided to stay with the family due to her strong attachment to the wonderful land and its people. The family breed horses and life goes on as normal amidst the beautiful scenery of the mountain gorge. But another resident of the area appears in Shaiyr's life, meteorologist Ermek, whose weather station is located near to the family's home...
- Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the center of attention when he is caught stealing a racehorse at night. A story inspired by the myth when horses became the wings of men.
- A man who has lost his memory while working in Russia and returns to Kyrgyzstan for the first time in 20 years.
- Twelve-year-old Jekshen is an exceptional runner. Lonely Jekshen only has his girlfriend from school and his father's friends for support. They encourage him to take part in a big race that could change his life for the better.
- The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines. He is the last link in a huge energetic system and he becomes the binding bridge between the geopolitical problems of post-soviet space and the common people. The economic devastation of the country had an enormous impact on the industrial workers and yet despite the upheaval, these people did not seize to love and suffer, to have and be friends and to enjoy their lives. In particular our resilient electrician, who possesses a wonderful and open heart. He not only brings electric light (which is often out) to the lives of the inhabitants of this small city, but he also spreads the light of love, loyalty, life and mainly laughter.
- Asema, a Kyrgyz city girl wisiting her boyfriends family in the countryside, is mistaken for a villager and accidentally kidnapped by Sagyn, a young shepard who was too shy to ask the young girl for marriage.
- A journey based on tales of the wind, about life and death, through the land of the kuraï (tumbleweed), where nothing is as it seems.
- A slice-of-life story on globalised capitalism's impact on Kazakhstan, its contemporary urban culture, and the lonely road that patrons of the arts walk in a country where art is often overlooked and underappreciated.
- Four Kyrgyz migrants transport a body of their suddenly deceased comrade from Kazakhstan. On the border they can't pass through the passport control: the deceased doesn't have an immigration card.