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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.

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?

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This social drama takes place in a traditional fishing village located on the bank of a Tajik sea. Recently, the village has been facing ecological and environmental disaster amidst its transition between tradition and modernity. Barakat, an honest and respected old village man, doesn't support the Boat Shopkeeper who smuggles harmful goods into the village. Barakat has only one confidante, Ramses, a small village boy. The village is visited by a group of filmmakers shooting a film and they cast Safar, Ramses's father, as the lead while Salima (Ramses's mother) struggles to convince Safar and her son to relocate to the city.

On the eve of independence in Tajikistan among Komsomol, KGB, inflation, and bread shortage, Kahkhor and Mannon, two old friends, are put to the test when one of them receives a lucky lottery ticket instead of a salary.

Al Aziv, ProRock and Red Planet. Three Bands - one Obsession: Rock Metal! This sounds not extraordinary but it is in a country shaped by strong traditions and which is still struggling to find his way to the future. But there is a new generation in this former Soviet Republic, which faces long since many challenges, exacerbated by the combined effects of the civil war (1992-1997) and the economic and politic transition, with new questions, ideals and dreams. The youth of Tajikistan are finding their own paths, voicing their own concerns with the status quo and demonstrating their own identity. These young Metal-Heads are confronted by unique challenges of producing and performing music in a society so at odds with their own values. There might be different characters, different bands and different styles but there is only one message spread out through the sound of their music: I Want to Be Different.

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".

Gathering the best of the best, placing them in a place from which there is no way out and leaving them indefinitely - a bold experiment of a bored crime boss or an idealistic attempt to provoke the creation of something unique? Zhorik does not ask such difficult questions. After all, his life is boring and hopeless: he is constantly fired from his job; the wife is a housewife, dreaming of great and pure love, and the food is only burnt scrambled eggs and rolls with pickles. Also, collecting icons, as a way to brighten up the gray everyday life in a strange rented apartment. And only dreams help Zhorik not to turn into a Wanderer completely and irrevocably.

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.

In Emelie Mahdavian's After the Curtain, four female dancers battle shifting cultural norms and face increasing disfavor in the Post-Soviet, predominantly Muslim nation of Tajikistan. The women weigh their love of art against economic hardship, loneliness, and social reproach in this intimate portrait, which also celebrates the rich dance and music culture of a Central Asian country largely unknown in the West.

Old Silk Road will capture the vibrant lives of the locals we met along the way, traversing over 38,000 vertical feet by bicycle on Tajikistan's high alpine roads, including the legendary Pamir Highway, with peaks reaching 24,500 feet. Staying with locals and sharing meals in remote villages untouched by modernity, where daily life centers around survival. This films includes spontaneous dance parties with an 80 year old Pamiri dance legend, exploring geographical marvels like Lake Karakul, and delving into both the historical and modern significance of the Silk Road. Through captivating storytelling, local music, and stunning visuals, this film will illuminate the culturally rich hidden gem that is Tajikistan, a young country largely unknown to much of the world. Many families in Tajikistan have members who move to Russia for work due to limited local employment opportunities, then send money back to support their families. So my hope is that this film will help increase adventure tourism for adventure motorcycles, off-road vehicles, mountaineering, and bike packing in Tajikistan, creating more jobs and providing a much needed boost to their economy. We are currently working on funding to finish this film. By helping to fund this documentary you will support a project that bridges cultures, drives economic growth, fosters global understanding, and provides local Tajik artists with the global stage they deserve.

This film tells the story of a boy who lives in his own little poetic world. Despite of that he cannot speak, it does not create any obstacles to know the world around him. He sees in himself an infinite spectrum of possibilities even fly like a bird and gather flowers from the Moon. Could his endless imagination and courage makes his dreams come true?

The story of a village boy's first love.