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Raz and Sela, embark on a journey through Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, exploring Central Asian landscapes while testing their friendship and personal convictions.

In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.

A fairy tale about king-Arthur-type main character, story of karma, passions and political ambitions in the ancient kingdom.

The fate of a legendary boy, Temudjin, later the Genghis Khan, who became the most powerful emperor of Mongolia. With his army created one of the largest empires of all time.

Traces the expansion of the human race from central Africa to Asia to the edge of South America.

Sybille has persuaded her adult son Samuel to come on a trek in the hope of finding a new rapport - but challenges await, as much from their own personalities as from the arduous landscape.

Marta Meszaros, Hungarian filmmaker, returns to her childhood home in Kyrgyzstan. The filmmaker recreates a fiction around the life of her parents in this film entirely devoted to the cult of memory

Follows a young teacher from Turkey whose goal is to establish a school in Kyrgyzstan.

A young boy in a mountain forest explores nature and hears his grandfather's tales of Mother Deer. His innocent view of the world contrasts with the difficult realities experienced by the adults in his life.

Based on true events, the film follows several intertwined stories about the disempowerment of women, set against the backdrop of modern-day Kyrgyzstan's patriarchal society.

Born in the USSR: Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life.

Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. But the countrymen are to help him, and even to let their children go and "sleep" at school instead of giving a hand. There is only, Altynai, an orphan, to seem fascinated by the teacher and his knowledge.

A closely observed psychological portrait of four women, whose lives are bound together by an incident on the New York City subway.

The relevant epic story of the strong-willed, courageous and independent woman before her time, Kurmanjan, who is revered to this day for her diplomacy for saving her nation from complete destruction when the Russians invaded.

On the road with Wikileaks.

A young Kyrgyz woman is kidnapped and forced to marry. A drama about the desire for freedom in the clutches of a tradition.

This is a love story set in the steppes of Central Asia of today. Temür a thirty year old Kazakh decides to start life again in his ancestral village in the Kyrghyz Mountains. He discovers soon after his arrival that he is a misfit in this settlement of old conservative Islamic men,some women and children. The only ray of hope for him is Amira a young married woman who waits in frustration for her absentee husband - a Mujahideen. Temur watches sorrowfully as the individual village stories unfold at the same as he tries to help the community out in any way he can. In this way he comes closer to Amira and Taib, her young brother-in-law. In a dead end situation the lovers decide to leave the settlement and travel to a place that would hold out with their dreams.

A precocious orphan from Central Asia comes to America to find his long lost mother. Along the way he befriends a down on his luck small time hustler, and together they set in motion a daring scheme to solve all their problems. However, things don't go according to plan.

A woman meets a handsome man in the street. However, a strange call warns her that it all was only a dream. When she decides to continue dreaming, the young couple's romance turns into a nightmare.

In a Kyrgyz village, five older women adopt an infant foundling. Jump ahead about 12 years: the boy, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes berserk. He plays with friends, horsing around, sniggering about sex, going to an outdoor movie. He works, fishing and making bricks of mud. And, he's starting to notice girls. He and his best friend fight, and he learns to his consternation that he's a foundling. A death in the family pushes Beshkempir even faster toward adult roles: he must brush tears from his eyes, lead a funeral procession, and reconcile with his friend. Then, he borrows a bicycle and calls on Aynura: courtship begins.

In 2009 near Issyk-Kul, schoolboy Aktan wants to join National Security. When the MP protects his son Alan from justice, Aktan and friend Cuba take over the courthouse with weapons.

Lovable nerd Orlando will do anything to keep his Instagram model girlfriend happy, but when faced with the possibility of losing her, will Orlando be able to do what it takes to get her back?

Joanna Lumley embarks on an adventure. Ancient Silk Road from Venice to the Chinese border. The journey, a perilous network, traces the footsteps of merchants, conquerors, kings, and pilgrims, crossing continents, deserts, mountains.