From stage to screen
No37
Қазақстанда сахнадан экранға өткен алғашқы тәуелсіз жоба
ŞAM’s first play, a tour of thirteen cities, and the first independent project in Kazakhstan to move from stage to screen with its stage cast.
About the performance
- Premiere
- 4 September 2022
- Playwright
- Ismail Iman, after The Gardens of Astara
- Kazakh translation
- Alisher Rakhat
- Director
- Farhad Moldagali
- Genre
- Drama
- Running time
- 1 h 30 min
- Age
- 16+
- Language
- Kazakh
Cast
- Rasul
- Yerkebulan Daiyrov
- Anuar
- Assan Mazhit
- Zeynep
- Zarina Karmen
- Bahtiyar
- Sagyzbay Karabalin
- Young Rasul
- Almat Quraq
- Solmaz
- Liza Serikova
Silence can be more violent than truth.
Қазақстанда сахнадан экранға өткен алғашқы тәуелсіз жоба
About
Fifteen years ago a terrorist attack, the worst in the country’s history, took many innocent lives. On the next anniversary of the tragedy, the Yagubov family’s quiet routine falls apart.
A traveller stands at their door. Is he a holy fool, a man who came back to life and found its meaning, or simply a coward? Against the backdrop of a fictional attack, a real revolt breaks out inside a false family: relatives estranged from one another, each speaking their own truth, and no one listening.
On tour: Almaty, Aktau, Aktobe, Karaganda, Taraz, Astana, Atyrau, Kyzylzhar, Taldykorgan, Shymkent, Kyzylorda, Oral and Turkistan.
- 2022Critics’ Prize, supporting actress of the year: Liza Serikova as Solmaz
- 2023Ticketon Awards: Premiere of the Year and Performance of the Year
- 2023XXIX Republican Theatre Festival, best female role: Zarina Karmen as Zeynep
- Spectators of the play
- 80,000+
- Cities on tour
- 13
- Cinema admissions
- 350,000+
- Box office of the film
- 660M ₸
The film · 2025
From stage to screen
In 2025 No37 became a feature film, directed by Zhandos Aibassov with the original stage cast. Fifteen years after a metro bombing that claimed their son, the family lives in mourning; on the anniversary Rasul appears at the door, alive and silent about where he has been.
A full metro station was rebuilt in retro style for the shoot, and the crowd scenes were filmed without CGI. After its release in Kazakhstan the film was presented at the Marché du Film in Cannes in 2026 and signed for worldwide distribution with TVCO.
- 2022Stage premiere
- 2023National tour
- 2025Feature film
- 2026Cannes, TVCO
- 2027International release
- Director
- Zhandos Aibassov
- Producer
- Almat Quraq
- Editor
- Nazar Sharkhan
- Music
- ARShAT
- Cinematographer
- Nursultan Bazarbay
- Composer
- Shyryn Bazarkulova
- Release
- 20 November 2025
- Running time
- 89 min
- Format
- DCP, 2.39:1, 5.1
- Distribution
- TVCO, worldwide
Press about No37
8 publications.
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