Dyed hair, earrings in the ears, bright clothes - an image that is very different from the Kazakh standard of masculinity. This is how the main characters of this look, members of the Kazakh group Ninety One. Many will not find anything unusual in the image of the musicians, however, the group's popularity among Kazakh-speaking teenagers caused great indignation in part of the society, which led to street protests, disruption of concerts and pressure from the authorities. The emergence of Ninety One revealed a whole layer of social and cultural conflicts within the Kazakh society between urban and rural culture, between traditionalism and globalization, between the vertical of power and personal freedom.

The disappearance of the Aral Sea is one of the most catastrophic man-made disasters in world history. Rusty shipwrecks and a salt desert lie below the horizon and were once covered in water. "Sea Tomorrow" leaves us in this post-apocalyptic landscape where the sea has gone but the people remain, namely a fisherman with nowhere to fish, an old gardener on soil too salty to grow trees, a hydro-biologist daily examining the deposits of the former sea bottom and pirates after a shipwreck. Locals say that every 100 years the land is renewed. The sea has gone, but one day it may return again.