Turgaud

A mysterious man arrives at an airport for what amounts to a job interview with the head of a criminal syndicate. He takes on the task of protecting the gangster from a woman and her child who intend to kill him, and the violence that follows takes strange and unpredictable forms. The film is a western that deliberately unsettles the usual rules of storytelling.

Turgaud is a Kazakh production directed and written by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, whose earlier features include Steppenwolf (2024) and Kazakh Scary Tales (2025); it arrives between those two films and a further 2026 release, Moor. The cast is led by Berik Aitzhanov as Bek, alongside Anna Starchenko as Fox, Kuantay Abdimadi as Amir, Daniyar Alshinov as Shein, Dias Baytuov as Baylat and Sharip Serik as Sapar. Anara Zhunussova, Irina Sosnovaya and Beksultan Kazybek produced. It runs 124 minutes and was released on 11 February 2026.