Dastur

Dastur (2023) is a Kazakh thriller rated 18+ that you can watch online on iFILM. The title means "tradition" in Kazakh, and here tradition functions as a trap — the only exit from a crisis a powerful family created itself.

Nursultan, a respected landowner in a rural community, has always been able to bury trouble with money. His son Bolat has lived accordingly — spoiled, untouchable. When Bolat assaults a young woman from a nearby village, his father moves to hush it up, but the police report is already filed. Local custom offers one solution: marriage. The moment the young bride crosses into her husband's home, the people responsible for what happened to her start dying under circumstances that can't easily be explained. Director Kuanysh Beisek pairs social drama with something murky and unsettling, featuring Aldabek Shalbayev and Nuray Zhetkegen. Stream Dastur (2023) online on iFILM.