Gulcha Tashbayeva

The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially)...

A romance by Ali Khamraev with musical numbers interspersed

The artificial brain Sig, created under the guidance of Professor Yavorovsky, disappeared in one of the research institutes. Meanwhile, strange...

A dying woman’s wish sends her son on a train journey from the steppes of Uzbekistan to the Russian hinterland in search of his father’s...

Man Follows Birds is a coming-of-age story of a young Uzbek poet surrounded by violence. Farouk is fascinated by trees and Khamraev films him with a...

A Russian doctor is invited to work at Afghanistan's top hospital during the war, and sees firsthand the carnage caused by the Islamist mujaheddin as...

Three women’s lives intersect in a small town in Uzbekistan following the Second World War. The first, an old woman trapped in a forced...