Dad Is Ill (Dadam betob) (2017)

Dadam betob (Dad Is Ill) is an Uzbek feature film directed and written by Zulfiqor Musoqov; it premiered on 20 January 2017 at the Alisher Navoiy cinema in Tashkent. It follows a mother of several children who works a single day as a taxi driver to pay for her sick husband's treatment; her last passenger turns out to be Pokiza, a woman drawn into religious extremism. Serious scenes are mixed with comic ones. The lead is played by Feruza Saidova and Pokiza by Yulduz Rajabova; the director described the film as his personal statement on religious extremism.