Imprigionato per aver ridicolizzato il proprio Paese, il giornalista kazako Borat viene richiamato per una nuova missione ufficiale: tornare negli Stati Uniti per donare a Michael Pence una scimmia! Approdato in Texas, Borat scopre però che la scimmia è morta e che la figlia quindicenne Tutar lo ha seguito. Come compensazione, decide quindi di donare la stessa Tutar al vicepresidente. Cresciuta nel mito di Melania Trump e convinta che il posto ideale per una donna sia una gabbia, Tutar prende lezioni per diventare una perfetta donna americana e una volta diventata una giornalista rampante si offre, non più a Pence, ma a Rudolph Giuliani. Nel frattempo Borat si preoccupa di salvaguardare la sicurezza della figlia e soprattutto di proteggere l'America dalla minaccia del virus diffuso dalla famiglia Clinton...
Di ritorno da una visita ufficiale a Mosca, l'aereo del presidente USA è preso in ostaggio da terroristi che chiedono la liberazione del loro capo, il gen. Vadek, dittatore del Kazakistan e detentore di valigette nucleari russe. Minacciano di eliminare un passeggero ogni trenta minuti.
Borat è un giornalista del Kazakistan che viene inviato negli Stati Uniti per studiarne usi e costumi. Ogni giorno, nei differenti incontri organizzati dal suo collaboratore Azamat per documentare le peculiarità culturali del nuovo continente a lui sconosciuto, vengono mostrate le evidenti difficoltà di integrazione e di conciliazione tra la modernità e la dinamicità della società americana e lo stile invece privo di civiltà e di norme legali e morali del paese di Borat. Un giorno, incuriosito dalla televisione nella camera del suo albergo, Borat vede una puntata di Baywatch e si innamora di Pamela Anderson.
Nei profondi abissi Lara Croft rinviene un codice per rintracciare il mitico vaso di Pandora, che secondo le leggende conterrebbe l’essenza del Male stesso e che ha il potere di catapultare il mondo nel Caos. La notizia non sfugge a Jonathan Reiss, un malvagio scienziato ricchissimo, che assolda una banda cinese, capitanata dal perfido Chen Lo, perché si impossessi del vaso. Inizia una corsa piena di mirabolanti avventure, tra i quattro angoli della Terra, per raggiungere il Kilimanjaro, dove secondo il codice pare trovarsi il conteso oggetto…
FEATHERED COCAINE is not a wildlife documentary. It is a documentary about the international trade of falcons. After the trade of drugs, people and weapons, smuggling falcons is ranked No 4 in the list of the most profitable illegal trades. Most people are not aware that the effects of the falcon trade has exerted huge influence over thousands of years on politics, economy and society all around the world. FEATHERED COCAINE reveals in an investigative way the contexts between the trade of falcons and historical events, where royal dynasties, institutions like the CIA and the KGB, the oil industry and Al Queda were involved. This documentary was filmed and released shortly before the 'supposed' execution of Osama bin Laden, who CIA Operative Alan Parrot & his Team had met with 6 times between 2004 & 2010. As of October 11th, 2020.
Set in the 15th century, the story follows the formation of the Kazakh state after the death of Genghis Khan and the usurpation of power by one of Khan's descendants, leading the sultans Kerei and Janibek to resort to some nomadic tribes to remove the usurper, hoping for a better life and freedom.
A drama about messed up athlete who tries to regain his career.
Kyz-Zhibek - Kazakh poetic folk legend of the 16th century, tells about the period in the Kazakh nation when the people suffered from bloody feuds. In those times each province of the Kazakh nation had its own Khan and each tried to supersede the other. The love story of Tolegen, the brave warrior, and the beauty Zhibek ends tragically because of inter-family strife. Tolegen is foully murdered by Bekejan (the batyr, or nobleman, of the rival family), who earlier strived for the hand of Zhibek. Zhibek commits suicide after learning about the death of Tolegen.
A Kazakh spy thriller: In 1921, at the height of the civil war, a Soviet officer is assigned to kill the ataman Dutov, a White collaborator. In order to get close to the ataman he infiltrates his gang.
A film about the feat of 17 soldiers of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (now the National Guard), who died on April 7, 1995 on the Tajik-Afghan border while protecting the external borders of the CIS.
In Almaty, a sheltered and chaste woman named Din sees her life intertwined with the experiences of a prostitute who looks like her.
Living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a young man is preparing to become a bus conductor. One day, in between wandering the city streets and going to the movies, he makes the acquaintance of a female student.
Dina works as a journalist for the national television station. The stories she is asked to report on are becoming increasingly absurd and full of praise for the government. Her love life is limited to a few secret meetings with her married cameraman. Dina looks after her young sister, a lesbian activist, who regularly finds herself in trouble with the authorities.
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the marriage. The result is a fight in which Ezhik shoots himself accidentally. The old Kasym decides that Sabyr is now old enough to go to seek his real parents. At the end Sabyr, now an adult, decides to return to the village, but the village no longer exists because it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear test.
An old man decides to find the body of his son, a Kazakh soldier who died fighting somewhere in Russia, to bury him in the land of his ancestors. Travelling across the land with his grandson, they discover the harsh reality of war. And when they finally find the coveted grave, they realise that many brothers-in-arms are buried with the soldier. Every inch of the great homeland becomes the land of our fathers, the land of the ancestors...
The beloved wife and daughter-in-law Sabina faces new challenges.
Once upon in a time in Taraz, a bunch of friends goes to night club and find themselves in a tricky situation after conflict with son of local mobster.
«18 Kilohertz» refers to a sound frequency that adults cannot hear. The film focuses on the realities which faced teenagers in Kazakhstan in the late 90s, at the time of the drug boom in Almaty. It tackles one side of the conflict between the child and his parents leading to his alienation and flight from home. What makes the teenager prefer romantic asphalt streets to the cozy parental home?
For months, the FBI have been investigating Russian interference in the American presidential elections. ZEMBLA is investigating another explosive dossier concerning Trump’s involvement with the Russians: Trump’s business and personal ties to oligarchs from the former Soviet Union. Powerful billionaires suspected of money laundering and fraud, and of having contacts in Moscow and with the mafia. What do these relationships say about Trump and why does he deny them? How compromising are these dubious business relationships for the 45th president of the United States? And are there connections with the Netherlands? ZEMBLA meets with one of Trump’s controversial cronies and speaks with a former CIA agent, fraud investigators, attorneys, and an American senator among others.
A story of four childhood friends who mysteriously disappeared while camping in the rural mountains of Trans Ili Alatau. The following events were recorded on Sultan's videocamera, who was making his student thesis project on a local plant called the Asafoetida.