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- 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.
- A teenager in a Kirgiz provincial town passes the time between his work at the railroad and hanging out with his friends before he has to join the military service.
- A story about dreams and the manipulative power of films in a chaotic Kyrgyzstan, seen through the eyes of two cinema projectionists. The Kyrgyz town of Naryn is preparing for the 1000-year anniversary of Manas, their national hero. The complicated preparations are upset as a group of Islamic rebels invade Kyrgyzstan. The work and dreams of the film's protagonists, projectionists named Zarylbek and Murat, epitomise the present and the past in Kyrgyzstan, struggling through a process of transition. Through their eyes, we see a story that reflects the manipulative power that films exert on a colourful people influenced by socialism, the market economy, the Islamic faith and their nomadic culture.
- Ten-year-old Maksat with his mother and sister moves to his mother's native village: where he meets and makes friends with two neighboring boys. It turns out mom is in a quarrel with her father. Soon, the father of Maksat also comes for the family and remain to live together. In order to win his son again, his father gives Maksat a young stallion, the same as all the neighboring boys. Father, a computer science teacher and a former alcoholic, is trying to establish a new life. But his father is not satisfied with his position in this village, because now he is a "heap-kuyo" - this is how the Kyrgyz speak unflattering words about a man who lives with his native wife ... Eldiyar, every day, goes to a stop and waits for a bus coming from the city - he waits for his mother to return. And every day the bus arrives without mom. And only after leaving the bus, Eldiyar goes to play with the rest of the guys. And then one day, my mother gets out of the bus. Eldiyar is beside himself with happiness. But he still does not know that his mother came to say goodbye to him, perhaps forever. Azamat is forced to fight every day with his cousin uncle, the father of Eldiyar, for an unfair accusation of arson of hay. But he also cannot reveal the true culprit, his friend, because then he will get even more. The intertwined lives, the thirst for profit, the pride and other problems of adults slowly and imperceptibly begin to affect children's destinies, leaving a bitter taste of wormwood. The smell of wormwood in every Kyrgyz and Asian is associated simultaneously with a bitter taste and a tremulous sense of childhood.
- This film is about the good and the evil in our time, in our real modern life.
- A retired writer, Kubat Aliev, is living his last days as a famous and poor writer in a society increasingly concerned by wealth. A widower, he has no children and his only wish is that literature continues to bring enlightenment to his small and disillusioned nation. He sees the possibility of a continuation in his friend, a younger and an equally talented writer, Sapar. However, Sapar is very ill and is in need of an expensive treatment. On the day that Kubat decides to sell his apartment to save the bed-ridden writer's life, he learns his own younger businessman brother is beaten up by collectors for debts. Kubat finds himself torn between his overwhelming desire to save the sick writer's life and the pressure to help his kin.
- At a bus stop, in an undefined place, four unrelated characters are waiting for a bus that will never come. An almost still camera transforms the characters into anonymous silhouettes, likening them to microorganisms and commenting on their behaviors with a subtle and scathing humor.