EgkeBai

EgkeBai (2024) is a Kazakh drama with a comic streak that you can watch online on iFILM. Director Yernar Nurgaliyev flips the kidnapping thriller on its head — here the abductors are the ones in trouble, and the hostage is a ten-year-old kid.

Two hapless crooks snatch the son of a wealthy businessman and demand a ransom. Easy money, they think. The boy has other ideas. Trap after trap, demand after demand, the grown men end up doing exactly what he says, never quite sure how they lost control. There's no shaking him now.

At seventy-five minutes it stays lean and quick. Syrym Kashkabaev and Yedil Anarbay lead a film that runs on one sharp contrast: two would-be hard men, outsmarted at every turn by a child. Stream EgkeBai (2024) online on iFILM.