Aktan Arym Kubat

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 ...

Serikpai and Amir grow up without a father, who once went to work in Russia, but never returned. They are waiting for him and hoping. Waiting for ...

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 ...

In a remote Kyrgyz village, Beshkempir, an infant foundling, is taken in by five older women and later adopted by a couple unable to bear ...

Aktan Abdykalikov’s simple, clear-eyed poetry finds an elemental form here. Two twin brothers are walking down the road carrying a pail of ...

A puzzling fable about human relations inspired by Samuel Beckett (in Kyrgyz, beket means station). At a bus stop amid a snowy winter landscape, ...

The second film by Kyrgyzstani director Aktan Arym Kubat (then credited by his Russian name Aktan Abdykalykov), it is the first of his ...

A river reflects everything without carrying it away. But time — it takes everything away without reflecting anything… A story about ...

The fate of stray dogs of town, who wander around seeking their puppies. There are different types of dogs: those who win at contests, those ...