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- Melody teaches music at a children cancer center for thirty children which are going to have a party at the end of autumn. Melody is to compose a piece using the sounds of thirty different birds.
- In a remote village from Tajikistan, an old woman is obsessed with only one thing: to be buried in the village old cemetery Her neighbor is an old widow living alone with her dog and waiting for her only son, who left for Dushanbe to fulfill his dream and become an actor.
- 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?
- Kamal, 20 years old, can't have sexual intercourse with women although he is married. He goes to the big city and notices beautiful Vera, whom he follows round town. Will his partnership with her husband, a mafia thug, help him become a man ?
- Set in the Tadjik village of Asht, this film draws on the Muslim notion that we are born with an angel on each shoulder, and that the angel on the right records the good that we do throughout our lives, and the angel on the left the bad. A man who has served ten years in a Moscow prison is summoned home upon release, to help settle the affairs of his dying mother, but it is soon borne into him that he must settle his own outstanding affairs with the villagers. The nine year old son he never knew about is entrusted by the dying mother with the family heirloom jewellery, tasked with only passing it on to his father if he becomes a good man.
- Nilufar, a girl living downtown, is about to marry a man living uptown. But one day, soldiers come and plant barbed wire to separate the two towns. The life of the people, who have thus far enjoyed peace, now falls into severe chaos. Students must take classes with barbed wire in the middle of the classroom, and it becomes difficult to go to the hospital. However, the biggest problem is Nilufar's wedding. Kirill, the chief of the climate observatory, tries his best to help her wedding, but then a terrible tragedy occurs.
- In 1940, a year before the Nazis started deporting Jews to death camps, Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of approximately 200,000 Polish Jews from Russian-occupied Eastern Poland to forced labor settlements in the Soviet interior. As cruel as Stalin's deportations were, ultimately they largely saved Jewish lives, for the deportees constituted the overwhelming majority of Polish Jews who escaped the Nazi Holocaust. "Saved by Deportation" not only tells this story, but it re-traces the path Asher and Shyfra Scharf traveled more than 60 years ago from Poland to Siberia to the former Soviet states of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. It is in those largely Muslim societies, in the cities of Kuhjand, Jeezax and Samarkand, that the film demonstrates a remarkable spirit as the Scharfs are welcomed by the locals who recall fondly the sojourn of Polish refugees in their midst. This little-known story of survival is both a harrowing adventure and an affirmation of human goodness during a time of great darkness.
- A journey through the most remote parts of Tajikistan - a young and little-known country which cradles the last embers of an ancient culture.
- More than 50 years back in a stony set of a remote mountainous village somewhere in Tajikistan the lovers called Shams and Mekhri traveled. Mekhri pulled by a transient eclipse broke an oath of marital faithfulness that overnight transformed Sham's existence into a farcical puppet show, leading to a murder of his spouse. Unable to take the burden of the committed sin, Shams chose the path of repentance trying to cleanse his fault by serving people that's followed by the meeting with his own "Ego".
- 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.
- Wakhan is an impressionist film, based on an initiatic journey and remote encounters, revealing a peaceful and suspended in time Afghanistan.
- In Emelie Mahdavian's After the Curtain, four female dancers battle shifting cultural norms and face increasing disfavor in the Post-Soviet, predominantly Muslim nation of Tajikistan. The women weigh their love of art against economic hardship, loneliness, and social reproach in this intimate portrait, which also celebrates the rich dance and music culture of a Central Asian country largely unknown in the West.
- A short drama set in the Post-Soviet-era Tajikistan (1993), when it was descending into civil war.
- 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.
- In a small village in Tajikistan, a wealthy bully erects an outhouse at the edge of his property, right next to the window of his neighbor, a struggling educator. Revolted by the continual stench, and convinced that that the rich man is spying on his wife from the toilet, the teacher implores the mayor to intercede.
- Al Aziv, ProRock and Red Planet. Three Bands - one Obsession: Rock Metal! This sounds not extraordinary but it is in a country shaped by strong traditions and which is still struggling to find his way to the future. But there is a new generation in this former Soviet Republic, which faces long since many challenges, exacerbated by the combined effects of the civil war (1992-1997) and the economic and politic transition, with new questions, ideals and dreams. The youth of Tajikistan are finding their own paths, voicing their own concerns with the status quo and demonstrating their own identity. These young Metal-Heads are confronted by unique challenges of producing and performing music in a society so at odds with their own values. There might be different characters, different bands and different styles but there is only one message spread out through the sound of their music: I Want to Be Different.
- 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).
- Nati, a young Persian girl who grew up in Europe travels to Tajikistan to complete a photography project. She meets an elder gentleman named Siavash, who acts as her driver and guide accompanying her throughout her journey.
- 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.
- 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.
- Nur is 13 years old. When his mother falls ill, Nur goes to the other end of country to a gold mine in the hope of earning money for her treatment. On the road, he meets Asso, who promises to teach him how to survive in this world. Asso's lessons are more like a swindle, for which both of them have to pay. After a fight, Nur falls ill. Asso puts him into a passing car and runs away. Once he has rested at the house of complete strangers, Nur continues his way. He reaches the mine and tries to find work, but nobody wants to take him on as assistants, except for Saido, an old and lonely gold-digger. Nur manages to find a single slice of gold, and he loses hope of earning money here. Tired of his lonely life, Saido does not want to die in the mine and asks Nur to take him home. Here Saido finds out that he is not so lonely after all; he longer wants to die, and keeps part of the money for his funeral while giving the rest to Nur. Nur hastens back to his mother. On the road he meets Asso again, who robs him.
- 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.
- This film tells the story of a boy who lives in his own little poetic world. Despite of that he cannot speak, it does not create any obstacles to know the world around him. He sees in himself an infinite spectrum of possibilities even fly like a bird and gather flowers from the Moon. Could his endless imagination and courage makes his dreams come true?
- A day in the life of a small village in the mountains, with all its difficulties, joy, amenities and beauties, from dawn to late at night. The echo of the collapse of the Soviet rule, civil war and the building of a new life reached these places where, in cold and harsh winter days, people warm their homes with the fire of kindness, hope and love.
- The story of a village boy's first love.
- A young woman that is pregnant has been left by her husband and it's not clear whether he is dead or alive. In the society they live in, women that live alone are being disrespected and all sorts of obstacles are being thrown in their way. Unable to cope with this ordeal and having lost hope of her husband ever coming back, she starts thinking of a suicide. She pours oil over herself and...
- The singer Pasha's quiet evening together with her 'fan' Kolpakov is interrupted by a mysterious visitor, who soon is revealed as Kolpakov's wife. She insults Pasha and demand her to return all the gifts she has received.
- Being shot as an observational film, the video-letter becomes a meditation on the sources of Tajik spiritual culture.
- 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.
- About a little boy, with whom his peers plays a cruel joke, by locking him in an old dark bunker. Will he find in himself the courageous enough to confront the real cruelty and to develop resilient character of a real personality?
- 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.