Zhanna Issabayeva

Rejected

Zhanna Issabayeva

Zhanargul Zhanyamanova, Nushanbek Zhybanayev

This is the story of a young woman, Aiganym, who was born into the Orthodox Kazakh family from the South of Kazakhstan. When she was a student at the college in the capital city of Kazakhstan, she gave birth to a boy. Right after giving birth, her family cursed her and rejected her and her newborn son because she was a single mother. After seven years, Timur, her son, was not able to accomplish his homework assignment “to draw a family tree”. Aiganym decides to return to her parents’ house, so that her son has a big family. Regardless of the fact that each time, she wants to return, her eldest brother beats her up, she keeps on returning home again and again…

Sveta

Zhanna Issabayeva

Laura Koroleva, Roman Lystsov

Suddenly laid off from a factory staffed by deaf-mute people, Sveta’s house loan pushes her into a highly unethical line of work.

Bopem

Zhanna Issabayeva

Teenager Ruslan is a half-orphan who lives by the dried Aral Sea. When he learns that due to serious illness he has no more than 3 months to live, Ruslan decides to punish those responsible for the death of his beloved mother.

Nagima

Zhanna Issabayeva

Aidar Mukhametzhanov, Galina Pyanova

Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her fellow orphanage “graduate” the pregnant, and equally isolated, Anya. In the midst of giving birth to her child, tragedy strikes and Anya dies. Never knowing her mother, the newborn girl must be submitted to the orphanage and so Nagima sees the vicious cycle of life in repetitious action and becomes severely depressed at the cruelty of life.

Losing Innocence in Alma-Ata

Zhanna Issabayeva

Tolepbergen Baysakalov, Oksana Boitchenko

13 short stories about people's first sexual experiences

Ойпырмай или Дорогие мои дети

Zhanna Issabayeva

Tolepbergen Baysakalov, Alikhan Idrisheva

A mother of five decides to reunite with all of her grown children.

Судьба

Zhanna Issabayeva

Nineteen-year-old young man Azat moves from the village to Almaty to work as a bricklayer at a construction site in the brigade of his older brother. But his brother is delayed in the mountains on the construction of another object, and Azat is forced to spend several days alone without housing and money in a big city. One event, in which the young man is a direct participant, will determine his fate.