[5] The first productions of Tajikkino were documentaries, some of them directed by the Tajik actor Kamil Yarmatov, who had already starred in Soviet films realized outside of Tajikistan.
[5] Production of feature films in Tajikistan started again in the mid-1950s, when director Boris (Besion) Kimyagarov (1920–1979) was finally able to get approval for a movie version of Dokhunda (1956).
[4] A new generation of professionally trained Tajik directors emerged, with successful productions such as I Met a Girl (1957), the first Tajik musical, directed by Rafail Perel’shtein (Pearlstein), Children of Pamirs (1963) by Vladimir Motyl, Fate of the Poet (1959), by Kimyagarov, on the life of the Persian poet, born in present-day Tajikistan, Rudaki.
Its director, Jamshed Usmonov, was already known in France for his works Flight of the Bumblebee (co-produced with Min Byung-Hun) and particularly Angel on the Right also chosen at Cannes in 2002.
[4] Two direct-to-video films were produced in Tajikistan in 2004 and 2005, Statue of Love (2004) by Umedsho Mirzoshirinov and Wanderer (2005) by Gulandom Muhabbatova and Daler Rahmatov.
[7] The 2010s saw an improved quality of Tajik films, with the emergence of new directors trained not only in Iran but also in the U.S., Russia, South Korea, and India, and thus open to multiple influences.
Films produced in this decade included Teacher (2014) by Nosir Saidov, about the last day of an old teacher in a village torn between Soviet heritage and Islamic radicalization; Dream of an Ape (2016) by Rumi Shoazimov, the first Tajik horror movie; and Air Safar (2015) by Daler Rakhmatov, a comedy where a Tajik farmer and a Frenchman look so similar that they are consistently mistaken for each other.
It told the story of a Pamiri girl in Moscow and her contrasted love for a Russian boy, and won the award for best Tajik film at the 2016 Didor Festival.
[8] Sugdsinamo, a studio based in the Northern part of Tajikistan, produced in 2018 Tangno (2018) by Muhiddin Muzaffar, a critical look at the power of tradition in the area of Panjakent, where a boy who has not been circumcised on time because of his family's financial difficulties is discriminated by the villagers.