Aktan Arym Kubat Trailers
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Aktan Arym Kubat (Kyrgyz: Актан Арым Кубат; born March 26, 1957, Sokuluk District, Kyrgyzstan), also known as Aktan Abdykalykov, is a Kyrgyzstani director, screenwriter and actor. Member of the National Film Academy of the Kyrgyzstan, acting Member of the European Film Academy, acting Member of Asia Pacific Screen Academy. In 2016, Aktan Arym Kubat was recognized as one of the best directors in Asia, and Beshkempir/The Adopted Son entered the top 100 Asian films of all time, released by the Busan International Film Festival, which conducted a survey among 73 prominent film professionals, film critics, festival executives, programmers and directors. Best known for the films Beshkempir/The Adopted Son (1998), Maimyl/The Chimp (2001), The Light Thief (2010), Centaur (2017).
Aktan Arym Kubat has received many industry awards, including Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, Bronze Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the FIPRESCI Prizes from International Federation of Film Critics, he was a participant of Un Certain Regard and Lа Quinzaine des Realisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival, Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival and other festivals.
Most Popular Aktan Arym Kubat Trailers
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21 September 2023
An amnesiac old man Zarlyk who after twenty-three years of ordeal in a foreign land, returns to his homeland.
11 July 1997
Aktan Abdykalikov's simple, clear-eyed poetry finds an elemental form here. Two twin brothers are walking down the road carrying a pail of water, they fight and come to blows, and a bemused older man intervenes and sets them back on their way.
02 March 2011
The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines.
01 January 1990
The fate of stray dogs of town, who wander around seeking their puppies. There are different types of dogs: those who win at contests, those working for police, circus dogs, those at dogfights.
01 January 1995
A puzzling fable about human relations inspired by Samuel Beckett (in Kyrgyz, beket means station). At a bus stop amid a snowy winter landscape, people wait.
28 December 2017
Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the center of attention when he is caught stealing a racehorse at night.
01 October 1989
20s south of Kyrgyzstan. Platoon commander Abysh Isaev arrives at the military garrison. His task, together with the red commander Valentin Ugryumov, is to stop the bloodshed and destruction perpetrated by Shaanazar’s Basmach detachment, and to return the farmers to their homes.
10 February 1999
In a remote Kyrgyz village, Beshkempir, an infant foundling, is taken in by five older women and later adopted by a couple unable to bear children of their own.
26 June 2009
A woman is led by her family to her new husband's home, to live with, presumably, his elderly mother and younger brother.
22 September 2010
In the center of the plot are three friends, three old men who swore in the name of the happiness of their friend Kaltay to marry him, no matter what.
04 July 2015
A family of nomads lives in the remote high mountains of Kyrgyzstan...
01 May 2001
The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia.
12 May 1985
The plot is based on events that took place during the severe drought of the early 1970s at the construction of the Toktogul Hydroelectric Power Station.
18 June 2025
The craft of carpet weaving in Kyrgyzstan boasts a long and legendary history, and is an integral part of local life.
02 July 2009
Serikpai and Amir grow up without a father, who once went to work in Russia, but never returned. They are waiting for him and hoping.
01 March 1984
After an injured wolf gets left behind by his wolf pack, a kind she-goat nurses him back to health.
08 February 1994
The second film by Kyrgyzstani director Aktan Arym Kubat (then credited by his Russian name Aktan Abdykalykov), it is the first of his autobiographical Kurak ("Quilt") Trilogy, followed by Beshkempir (The Adopted Son, 1998) and The Chimp (2001).
31 March 2018
As his city faces the threat of being conquered by an evil lord, a brave boy decides to take matters in his own hands.
01 April 1994
In this animated film inspired by Kyrgyz fairy-tales, a skylark helps people solve their problems.
30 December 1992
A river reflects everything without carrying it away. But time — it takes everything away without reflecting anything.
