TASFIYA based on the novel “Jealousy” by Timur Zulfikarov, fiction, HD, 70 min, 2014

Synopsis: More than 50 years back in a stony set of a remote mountainous village somewhere in Tajikistan the lovers called Shams and Mekhri used to travel. Mekhri pulled by a transient eclipse breaks an oath of marital faithfulness that overnight transforms Sham’s life into a farcical puppet show, leading to a murder of his spouse. Unable to take the burden of the committed sin, Shams stands on a path of repentance trying to cleanse his fault by serving people that is followed by the meeting with his own “Ego”.

THE OWNERS 2014, Kazakhstan 93 min., col,.1:1.85, DolbyDigital 5.1, language – Kazakh, Russian

Synopsis: 25 year-old John, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12 year-old sister Aliya, are forced to leave their house in the Kazakh city of Almaty. By luck their mother left them a house in a remote village, where they plan to prepare their comeback. But the house appears to be on the wish list of the District Officer’s alcoholic brother, who has lived there illegally for 10 years. The police will do everything in their power to make the brothers’ lives in the village impossible. Through the alembic of the absurd “The Owners” depicts routine injustice growing to unexpected cruelty, against a background of general indifference.

40 DAYS OF SILENCE, Uzbekistan / Tajikistan / Netherlands / Germany / France 2014, 88 minSynopsis: This is a passage between two faces, each the same, yet different. Bibicha’s face first appears in the dark, her eyes open and expression impassive, only her heavy breathing betraying the strain she feels. She will withstand the strain and take the vow of silence, retreating to her grandmother’s house for the 40 days to pass.