Chabata is a dance known throughout Tatarstan, distinguished by its unique rhythm: not two quarters, but three! The film crew traveled to Nizhnyaya Sosna, a village in the Baltasinsky district where this dance is especially popular. It was here that the choreographer of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Republic of Tatarstan first witnessed chabata, adapted it for the stage, and made it widely known. Is this how traditions are preserved? Perhaps. The film presents three stages in the evolution of this folk dance: its performance in the village, its adaptation on stage, and its experimental theatrical interpretation, seeking to uncover its origins. Long ago, chabata was danced exclusively by men. Now, all our protagonists are women.

The Tatar word "moñ" has five meanings in the explanatory dictionary: sadness, inner state, melody... But this word cannot be precisely translated. It’s something unique, Tatar. It’s in the prolonged songs, soulful chants, and memories. It’s both joy and sorrow, both present and past, both pain and pleasure. But can "moñ" be explained? We turned to singers, historians, philologists, poets, composers with this question and came to surprising results. "Moñ" will live, but it needs time. Among the film’s experts: the author of a dissertation on "moñ", the rector of the conservatory, a qil-kubiz master, an architect, a researcher of Turkic manuscripts, and even the great singer Ilham Shakirov.

Continuation of the film "Tungan yak" 2016. If in the first part we talked with emigrants who recently moved to Europe, then in the second part Ilyas Gafarov and Radif Kashapov explore the phenomenon of the Tatars of Finland, who moved to this country more than a hundred years ago, but retained their language, faith, traditions. How did they do it? Do Finnish Tatars have a generation gap? How do they solve the problem of mixed marriages? How do they treat Tatarstan, Finland, do they look to the future with optimism? Among the heroes of the film are football player Atik Ismail, musician Deniz Bedretdin, head of the Islamic Society of Finland Golten Bedretdin and others.