Movies: Shamshagui Mendiyarova

Four-year-old Kalima is staying with her aphasic grandmother while her mother is away. But when Granny suddenly dies, Kalima is left with a dead body, not realizing that her grandmother has passed on....

Story of a small Kazakh community in the 1930s terrorized by a Red Army soldier whose task it is to force them to collectivize and to eliminate “kulaks.”...