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- A grown daughter arrives to visit her father but her safety is endangered when her father's acquaintances attempt to collect a gaming debt he owes. Rescued by one of them, will she develop feelings for her savior?
- In 1940, a year before the Nazis started deporting Jews to death camps, Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of approximately 200,000 Polish Jews from Russian-occupied Eastern Poland to forced labor settlements in the Soviet interior. As cruel as Stalin's deportations were, ultimately they largely saved Jewish lives, for the deportees constituted the overwhelming majority of Polish Jews who escaped the Nazi Holocaust. "Saved by Deportation" not only tells this story, but it re-traces the path Asher and Shyfra Scharf traveled more than 60 years ago from Poland to Siberia to the former Soviet states of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. It is in those largely Muslim societies, in the cities of Kuhjand, Jeezax and Samarkand, that the film demonstrates a remarkable spirit as the Scharfs are welcomed by the locals who recall fondly the sojourn of Polish refugees in their midst. This little-known story of survival is both a harrowing adventure and an affirmation of human goodness during a time of great darkness.
- Melody teaches music at a children cancer center for thirty children which are going to have a party at the end of autumn. Melody is to compose a piece using the sounds of thirty different birds.
- In a remote village from Tajikistan, an old woman is obsessed with only one thing: to be buried in the village old cemetery Her neighbor is an old widow living alone with her dog and waiting for her only son, who left for Dushanbe to fulfill his dream and become an actor.
- Kamal, 20 years old, can't have sexual intercourse with women although he is married. He goes to the big city and notices beautiful Vera, whom he follows round town. Will his partnership with her husband, a mafia thug, help him become a man ?
- In a small village in Tajikistan, a wealthy bully erects an outhouse at the edge of his property, right next to the window of his neighbor, a struggling educator. Revolted by the continual stench, and convinced that that the rich man is spying on his wife from the toilet, the teacher implores the mayor to intercede.
- Nati, a young Persian girl who grew up in Europe travels to Tajikistan to complete a photography project. She meets an elder gentleman named Siavash, who acts as her driver and guide accompanying her throughout her journey.
- Set in the Tadjik village of Asht, this film draws on the Muslim notion that we are born with an angel on each shoulder, and that the angel on the right records the good that we do throughout our lives, and the angel on the left the bad. A man who has served ten years in a Moscow prison is summoned home upon release, to help settle the affairs of his dying mother, but it is soon borne into him that he must settle his own outstanding affairs with the villagers. The nine year old son he never knew about is entrusted by the dying mother with the family heirloom jewellery, tasked with only passing it on to his father if he becomes a good man.
- 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. Unable to take the burden of the committed sin, Shams chose the path of repentance trying to cleanse his fault by serving people that's followed by the meeting with his own "Ego".
- Nur is 13 years old. When his mother falls ill, Nur goes to the other end of country to a gold mine in the hope of earning money for her treatment. On the road, he meets Asso, who promises to teach him how to survive in this world. Asso's lessons are more like a swindle, for which both of them have to pay. After a fight, Nur falls ill. Asso puts him into a passing car and runs away. Once he has rested at the house of complete strangers, Nur continues his way. He reaches the mine and tries to find work, but nobody wants to take him on as assistants, except for Saido, an old and lonely gold-digger. Nur manages to find a single slice of gold, and he loses hope of earning money here. Tired of his lonely life, Saido does not want to die in the mine and asks Nur to take him home. Here Saido finds out that he is not so lonely after all; he longer wants to die, and keeps part of the money for his funeral while giving the rest to Nur. Nur hastens back to his mother. On the road he meets Asso again, who robs him.
- A short drama set in the Post-Soviet-era Tajikistan (1993), when it was descending into civil war.
- Being shot as an observational film, the video-letter becomes a meditation on the sources of Tajik spiritual culture.
- A person who has always reacted instantly to events will realize that if he stops for a few seconds before reacting, he can control the course of events.
- Zukhro, a little Tajik girl befriends an Indian emigrant Kabir who is called 'Khayolfurush' by everybody in the village. There is someone else who connects both of them invisibly and her name is Mina from India. This is the tale of maiden maturity and the failure of prejudices.
- A mysterious monkey's paw brought from a far off oriental country grants three wishes of its holder. However, a simple ancient aphorism says: nothing comes out of nothing, in order to get something one needs to give something in exchange.
- A journey through the most remote parts of Tajikistan - a young and little-known country which cradles the last embers of an ancient culture.
- The story of a village boy's first love.
- The biography of Mamatkul Arabov, a classic of Tajik documentary cinema, a VGIK graduate, a combat cameraman who shot the Great Patriotic War, a member of the International Association of combat cameramen, is tightly intertwined with the entire history of Tajik people. His portrait emerges from the mosaic of memories of his colleagues and friends. Being a descendant of millionaires of Bukhara, a Soviet combat cameraman, a communist documentary filmmaker, and later an active participant of the revival and popularization of Tajik traditional culture in Sovereign Tajikistan, he reflected the contradictory nature of XX century in his life and art. His lens captured the important stages in Tajik history in his documentaries, like "Discovering Osrushana" (1989), "Hephthalites who are you?" (1994), "I won't die" (1994), "A Dear memory" (1995) and "Bobojon Gafurov: phenomenon of 'Tajiks" (1998).