Tashkent, City of Bread

Alisher Navoiy

February 1948 •Russian

Biographical drama about one of the most famous Uzbek poets of the 15th century, Alisher Navoiy.

The Last Train

October 1973 •French

Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

Der Tunnel

January 1983 •English

White, White Storks

December 1966 •Russian

Set in the rural village of White Storks, the story tackles the taboo subject of an extramarital affair. Strong-willed Malika, married but childless, is openly consorting with another man with whom she shares a seemingly tender bond.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

September 2011 •English

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.

DAU. Cinema

April 2018 •Russian

An ongoing experiment, evolving from a biopic about Soviet physicist Lev Landau into a large scale project – part cinematic cycle, part behavioral experiment – involving hundreds of participants from around the world. Combining elements of film, theatre, science, psychology, architecture, visual arts and performance, it has created a complex and absorbing world that has to be lived as much as seen.

Waves

August 2024 •Czech

At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changing the world, the older of two brothers joins a prestigious newsroom of the public radio broadcaster. Not long after, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conflict between journalists and the secret service.

Crossing The Line

November 2022 •Estonian

Jakop, a lone fisherman on the coast of lake Peipus has to decide whether refugees brought to his door are his way of redeeming past sins or merely a means to quickly earn much needed cash.

One Life

December 2023 •English

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.

Bo Ba Bu

January 1998 •Uzbek

Two barbarians in the desert find a stranded white woman and regard her as their property. A strange and exotic parable that presents a tragic three-cornered relationship in a politically incorrect and ironic way.

To the Ends of the Earth

June 2019 •Japanese

A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.

The Stowaway

October 1997 •Dutch

Orazbaz, who lives in Uzbek, longs to leave his tiny fishing village. He becomes a stowaway on a ship thinking that he will end up in Manhattan. Instead he ends up in Rotterdam and is taken in by a lonely woman, but he is eventually betrayed by her jealous husband.

They Needed Soldiers

Invalid date •English

Low on supplies in the freezing tundras of the Eastern Front, a Soviet sniper stumbles into a fated encounter with two Nazi troops.

To Kill the Scorpion

February 1991 •Russian

On a certain remote island within the country, there is a prison zone where inmates are forced to mine ore. In one of the island’s caves, dinosaur bones are discovered. A sophisticated lady from the capital is invited to study the find, and a brave local guard, Sergeant A. Peskov, is assigned to escort her. Meanwhile, a ruthless crime boss known by the fearsome nickname "Scorpion," along with a group of hardened convicts, is secretly plotting an escape from the zone...

Engineer Prite's Project

January 1918 •Russian

A man is caught between his friendship with a young engineer wishing to open his peat-powered electric plant and his love for a young woman, whose father owns an oil company.

Hands Up!

January 1985 •Polish

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Amerikatsi

July 2022 •Armenian

In 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child, Charlie returns in the hopes of finding a connection to his roots, but what he finds instead is a country crushed under Soviet rule. After being unjustly imprisoned, Charlie falls into despair, until he discovers that he can see into a nearby apartment from his cell window - the home of a prison guard.

Abu Raykhan Biruni

August 1974 •Uzbek

A biographical film about one of the greatest Medieval scientists and scholars, Al-Biruni.

Tamerlane: Rise of the Last Conquerer

April 2026 •English

Searching for stability and justice, Timur "The Lame" becomes a world conqueror in order to unify all people, nations, and tribes under one banner.

Berlin - Akkurgan

December 2018 •Uzbek

The plot of the film tells about the events of the war era, where the stories of ordinary people are intertwined. The characters were Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, Hess, Ribbentrop, Molotov and Uzbek heroes. The film shows the role of government leaders in the country's domestic and foreign policy, and how their decisions affected the fate of ordinary people.