Madly in Love

Madly in Love (2023) is a Kazakhstani romantic drama directed by Oscar Bakhteev — watch it online on iFILM. Shynar Askarova and Rysqul Konakbayev play two strangers thrown together by an accident in the mountains.

Samat is a driven young entrepreneur who lives by targets and schedules. Asel wants nothing more than to run her own kitchen. When a crash leaves Samat with no memory of who he is, Asel makes a split-second call: she tells the hospital she is his wife, hiding her part in what happened. For a while the lie holds.

A crowd-pleasing romance with a real moral snag at its centre — how long can you stay in love with a story you invented? Stream Madly in Love online on iFILM.