The events of the film take place in the Tajik outback. The story which presented is the story of two-three families. The large-scale drama of ideas in the film becomes the drama of several people living in a remote village, and the conflict, which may seem civilizational to someone, ends completely at home and so that everyone has time in the future.
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.
Is a city like a ruthless jungle where happy middle class man can get killed without any good reasons? Or is it more like a merciful nest where a patient with terminal condition can get transplantation to be given a new life? Romish has only a few months left due to his cardiomyopathy. This orphaned guy hopelessly struggles everyday with evasion and anger hanging out with gangs. At last he happens to kill Shahzod who enjoyed moment of his life about to remarry with a devoted woman. By an irony of fate, Shahzod’s heart is transplanted to Romish. Shahzod’s father tries to embrace Romish as a new son, but the revealing truth gets everybody into jeopardy.
From the shadows of the majestic Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan comes a story of Azam, a shepherd and Buzkashi champion, who faces the pressures of modernization in the sport and in his own personal life. Azam plays as an individual for honor and integrity, but his success is increasingly thwarted by organized alliances, or "mafias", encouraged by his rival Khurshed, a member of Tajikistan's nouveau riche. Khurshed believes that team play is the future of the sport. Between challenges on the field and within his own family, Azam tries to find a place for himself in the new Tajikistan. Written by Najeeb Mirza
Twenty-year-old Kamal has been married for a few months but his wife is still a virgin. Learning that there is nothing physically wrong with him after visiting a doctor, Kamal sets off to town to search for another woman. The city is full of them but Kamal is still unable to meet anyone, until a chance encounter on a bus. But it looks as if this accidental meeting will take Kamal much farther than he was prepared to go… By the director of ‘Angel on the Right’. —Celluloid Dreams
In the midst of a mid-life crisis Jan, a 40 year old dancing teacher, decides to instigate a revolution against himself. His first act is to summon each of his four lovers, who are unaware of each other, to join him at the dance studio where we assume he is a tutor. His revelations to the women prompt a discourse about love and the fleeting nature of happiness. But when he comes to the fourth and final woman, he finds that his own philosophy of love is not as easy to apply as he had presumed. He realizes that the more the contemporary world has become sexually oriented the farther it has moved away from love...
A simple fable about a teacher's quest for justice. The teacher's neighbor not only ogles his wife, but builds an outdoor toilet right beside the teacher's house. When he is refused any legal recourse, the teacher decides to get revenge by building a latrine for the entire village outside his neighbor's house.
Mira returns home to Dushanbe from Russia to visit her father, a wastrel who is completely addicted to a game called "odds and evens," or Kosh ba Kosh. When another player comes to collect on gambling debts and finds nothing of value, he sets his sights on Mira.
About the traveling actors of Tajikistan and its first theaters in the twenties.
A poignant reminiscence of the love story between the poet Rustam and the young pilot Gulshod, who tragically died during the Great Patriotic War, heroically performing an aerial ramming maneuver.
The Chairman of the collective farm Sattar Safarov devoted many years to growing cotton. But a new time is coming, and with it another generation of cotton growers. Among them is Safarov's son, a young scientist Murad, who bred an original variety of cotton and wants to sow it in the fields of his native collective farm. Safarov does not dare to experiment. Murad quarrels with his father, but then realizes that he is right. After a while, Murad has the idea of searching for new varieties using a computer. With his friends, the teacher Yamschikov and cyberneticist Timur, Murad begins to make the first experiments…