Darezhan Omirbayev Trailers
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Darezhan Omirbaev (Kazakh: Дарежан Омiрбаев; born 15 March 1958; Alekseevka) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director and screenwriter. His film "Killer" (1998) won Un Certain Regard at the 51st Cannes Film Festival.
In 1980 he graduated from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics of the Kazakh State University. He worked as a teacher and programmer, editor at the Kazakhfilm film studio. He studied at the directing faculty of VGIK. In 1987 he graduated from the Film studies Faculty of VGIK (workshop of A. Plakhov). Since 1988 — director of the Kazakhfilm film studio. Author of a number of articles on the theory of cinema, published in magazines: "New Film", "Blue Phantom" and others. In 2004-2006, he was the editor-in-chief of Kinoman magazine.
His first two features "Kairat" (also shot in black and white) and "Cardiogram", which premiered at the 52nd edition of the Venice Film Festival, winning the CICT/UNESCO Prize. "Killer", a crime story inspired by Tolstoy's "The Forged Coupon", screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize Un Certain Regard. "Jol", Omirbaev's subsequent film, was a return to autobiography, a poetic story of a filmmaker in the vein of 8 1/2, starring Tajik filmmaker Djamshed Usmonov. "Shuga" and "Student" were departures for Omirbaev, both based on literary works - respectively, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. "Student" competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
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01 January 2006
This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo's NO DAY OFF (39 min) records the life of a maid who leaves her husband and baby for Singapore.
30 October 1986
In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant plots… One of the most vivid staples of the postwar childhood were pigeons.
18 September 2007
Chouga is a beautiful, rich and beloved young woman. She is thirty and lives in Astana, the Kazak new capital.
03 August 2022
Art and life are different worlds, separated by an impassable abyss. Where there is life, there is no art, and vice versa.
02 August 1993
An eight year old boy has no mother and misses very much a female presence in his life. When a young nurse comes to take care of his ill father, the boy falls in love with her.
11 August 1987
Anthology film by the group of young Kazakh filmmakers trained by Sergey Solovyov. Includes novels about love-driven suicide attempt, tank division and a summer camp for children.
01 September 2013
This educational film is intended for students of film schools. It illustrates the concept of directors copying each other.
01 August 1992
Living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a young man is preparing to become a bus conductor. One day, in between wandering the city streets and going to the movies, he makes the acquaintance of a female student.
05 September 1995
A 12-year-old boy from the isolated steppes in Kazakhstan has first encounter with the outside world when he is sent to a children's clinic with a treatable heart condition.
29 April 2006
Kairat, a teacher of mathematics, accidentally meets Aslar, along with whom he studied in university.
06 September 1999
Marat works as a personal driver in Almaty, capital of Kazakhstan. When he hits a Mercedes, the nightmare begins.
17 May 2012
Spurred by his own postmodern musings and the growing inequality, corruption, and kill-or-be-killed ethic of post-Soviet Kazakhstan, a solitary philosophy student steers his directionless life toward the commission of a violent crime, which leads to growing guilt.
18 May 2001
A filmmaker, Kobessov, awakens from an anxiety nightmare: during the preview of his newest film, the projectionist mixes up the reels and begins to show a bad karate film by accident.
31 October 2021
Didar is a poet, but he cannot live from his poetry. He has to write early in the mornings before setting out for his day job as a newspaper editor.
01 January 1988
One hot summer afternoon, two boys try to earn the cash for a movie in this beautiful evocation of the landscape of childhood.
01 August 1993
The stranger is John, an American visiting Kazakhstan as part of an exchange programme for "medical expertise".
05 October 2015
A film director and an actor have worked till midnight at a film studio. A security guy locked all doors and so now our heroes have to look for an exit, walking through the studio and meeting various people on their way – famous Kazakh film directors, film critics and just strangers.
