Yermek Shinarbayev

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1953-01-24 (71 years old)

Place of Birth Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Also Known As Ермек Шинарбаев, Ermek Bektasuly Shynarbaev, Ermek Shinarbaev

Yermek Shinarbayev

Biography

Yermek Bektasuly Shinarbayev (Kazakh: Ермек Бектасұлы Шынарбаев; born 24 January, 1953; Alma-Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director. Shinarbaev is sometimes categorized as a member of the Kazakh New Wave. He is the only Kazakh director who is the owner of the Golden Leopard (winner of the Locarno Film Festival) for the film "The Place on a Grey Tricorne" (1993). He is especially well known for his collaboration with the Korean-Russian writer, Anatoli Kim, resulting to three films. The last of Shinarbaev-Kim film "Revenge" (1990), was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won the grand prize at Sochi Open Russian Film Festival in 1990.

Known For

Director

2021
Kazakh Lessons

as Director

2016
Aktoty

as Director

2014
2013
2010
Astana - My Love

as Director

2009
2006
Paradise Lost

as Director

1998
1998
Duet

as Director

1998
Playing Brahms

as Director

1998
Master Class

as Director

1996
Crossroad

as Director

1994
Tender Heart

as Director

1990
Revenge

as Director

1986
1985
My Sister Lucy

as Director

1983
New Wave

as Director

1983
Rodeo

as Director

1981
Mazhit Begalin

as Director

1981
1979
A Taste of Bread

as Assistant Director

1977
Trans-Siberian Express

as Assistant Director

Producer

2021
Kazakh Lessons

as Producer

2008
The Market: A Tale of Trade

as Associate Producer

1998
Duet

as Producer

1996
Crossroad

as Producer

1995
Abai

as Producer

Writer

2021
Kazakh Lessons

as Screenplay

2016
Aktoty

as Writer

2009
Letters to an Angel

as Screenplay