Zhanna Issabayeva Movies

A young filmmaker travels across Asia to document independent women directors, but their stories bring her own past to the surface.

Amidst the plains of the Kazakhstan steppes lives a mother and Eldon, the youngest of her five grown-up children. Whilst his four siblings have all...

This is the story of a young woman, Aiganym, who was born into the Orthodox Kazakh family from the South of Kazakhstan. When she was a student at the...

The main character of the film, 11-year-old Talgat, lives on the outskirts of Alma-Ata in a dysfunctional family that consists of alcoholic parents,...

Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for...

Suddenly laid off from a factory staffed by deaf-mute people, Sveta’s house loan pushes her into a highly unethical line of work.

Nineteen-year-old young man Azat moves from the village to Almaty to work as a bricklayer at a construction site in the brigade of his older brother....

The film contains 13 different short stories about the first sexual experience. This is a mosaic of various feelings, emotions, joys and sufferings...

A dramatic comedy about a pathological liar from Kazakhstan.

Teenager Ruslan is a half-orphan who lives by the dried Aral Sea. When he learns that due to serious illness he has no more than 3 months to live,...