Saodat Ismailova

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Also Known As Саодат Исмаилова

Saodat Ismailova

Biography

Saodat Ismailova (1981, Uzbekistan) is a filmmaker and artist who lives and works between Tashkent and Paris. Her works have been presented in solo exhibitions at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing; Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam; the Center for Contemporary Art Tashkent; Tromsø Kunstforening; and the Kunstsammlungen & Museen Augsburg, among others. Ismailova’s works have also been featured in group shows at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Sharjah Biennal (2023); Para Site, Hong Kong; documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022); and Biennale Arte 2022 and 2013. Works by Ismailova are in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Almaty Museum of Arts; FRAC Corsica; and Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, among others. In 2022, she was awarded the Eye Prize for Art and Film, Amsterdam. She is the initiator of the educational program CCA Lab and the Tashkent Film Encounters; and she is the founder of the DAVRA research group, which is dedicated to studying, documenting, and disseminating Central Asian culture and knowledge.

Known For

Director

2024
2023
18000 Worlds

as Director

2022
Bibi Seshanbe

as Director

2021
Her Five Lives

as Director

2020
Her Right

as Director

2017
Stains of Oxus

as Director

2017
Two Horizons

as Director

2017
The Haunted

as Director

2016
Chillpiq

as Director

2014
40 Days of Silence

as Director

2013
Zukhra

as Director

Writer

2014
40 Days of Silence

as Screenplay

2014

Camera

2004
Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea

as Director of Photography

Producer

2019
Cemetery

as Producer