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- This is a film about the leader of the 1857 mutiny and his fight against the British rule.
- The unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.
- After a prison-stay captain Marat returns to his hometown to get back in the sea, when it turns out that the water has gone and his boat lays in the desert. Marat's plan is to bring his boat to where the water is.
- Film starts with a stylized radio show about the origins of the Tulip festival in Tajikistan, later unfolding into a sequence of love encounters between Layla and Majnun in the tulip field, narrated via the Tajik folk songs.
- On the eve of independence in Tajikistan among Komsomol, KGB, inflation, and bread shortage, Kahkhor and Mannon, two old friends, are put to the test when one of them receives a lucky lottery ticket instead of a salary.
- A grown daughter arrives to visit her father but her safety is endangered when her father's acquaintances attempt to collect a gaming debt he owes. Rescued by one of them, will she develop feelings for her savior?
- This social drama takes place in a traditional fishing village located on the bank of a Tajik sea. Recently, the village has been facing ecological and environmental disaster amidst its transition between tradition and modernity. Barakat, an honest and respected old village man, doesn't support the Boat Shopkeeper who smuggles harmful goods into the village. Barakat has only one confidante, Ramses, a small village boy. The village is visited by a group of filmmakers shooting a film and they cast Safar, Ramses's father, as the lead while Salima (Ramses's mother) struggles to convince Safar and her son to relocate to the city.
- Anora, a Tajik teenage girl, experiences the coming of age. Due to the ambiguity related to her absent father, the closed borders caused by the pandemic, and the fear of uncertainty, Anora has to grow up in the course of a night.
- A mysterious monkey's paw brought from a far off oriental country grants three wishes of its holder. However, a simple ancient aphorism says: nothing comes out of nothing, in order to get something one needs to give something in exchange.
- Zukhro, a little Tajik girl befriends an Indian emigrant Kabir who is called 'Khayolfurush' by everybody in the village. There is someone else who connects both of them invisibly and her name is Mina from India. This is the tale of maiden maturity and the failure of prejudices.
- Being shot as an observational film, the video-letter becomes a meditation on the sources of Tajik spiritual culture.
- The story of a village boy's first love.
- The film narrates a story of a Pamiri girl working in Russia who falls in love with a Russian boy. Similar to the 'Romeo and Juliete' love story, the families of the young couple can't accept this relationship due to the ethnic prejudices. The Pamiri girl returns home after her lover dies in the car accident and she already expects a baby. Coming back home to the mountains, to her own roots and taking a blessing at the local Saint's tombstone, symbolizes the spiritual journey a Tajik woman takes to overcome the difficulties, prejudices and give birth to a new life.
- The biography of Mamatkul Arabov, a classic of Tajik documentary cinema, a VGIK graduate, a combat cameraman who shot the Great Patriotic War, a member of the International Association of combat cameramen, is tightly intertwined with the entire history of Tajik people. His portrait emerges from the mosaic of memories of his colleagues and friends. Being a descendant of millionaires of Bukhara, a Soviet combat cameraman, a communist documentary filmmaker, and later an active participant of the revival and popularization of Tajik traditional culture in Sovereign Tajikistan, he reflected the contradictory nature of XX century in his life and art. His lens captured the important stages in Tajik history in his documentaries, like "Discovering Osrushana" (1989), "Hephthalites who are you?" (1994), "I won't die" (1994), "A Dear memory" (1995) and "Bobojon Gafurov: phenomenon of 'Tajiks" (1998).