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Ermek Karimzhanovich Tursunov (Kazakh: Ермек Кәрімжанұлы Тұрсынов; born 20 July 1961; Narynkol) is a Kazakh film director and screenwriter, one of the best Asian Film director according to Asia Pacific Screen Awards, master of sport, international class in futsal.
Ermek Tursunov was born in the settlement of Narynkol, Almaty Region, on 20 July 1961. He joined a sports school at the age of 5. Ermek continued his sports career at university playing professional futsal. As a member of Kazakhstan's national futsal team, Ermek took part in the 2000 World Cup in Guatemala. He is a graduate Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Dept. Of Journalism, 1984) and All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (Screenwriting and Film Studies Dept., 1990).
In 1991, Ermek participated in Nevada-Semey movement Anti-nuclear movement in Kazakhstan, and as an NGO member spent 4 years studying in the USA. Later he worked as the CEO of the national broadcasting corporation Qazaqstan and Executive Producer of Channel 31 TV and radio broadcasting company. Kelin was Ermek's debut as a director in 2008. This work was shortlisted for Oscar as the Best Foreign Language Film. 2012 saw his movie The Old Man (Shal), inspired by Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. It collected numerous rewards, including Kulager, Kazakhstani national movie award, as the best movie of the year (2012); it was nominated for the Nika Award for the Best CIS and Baltic Movie in 2014. Stranger (Zhat) became another major movie in Tursunov's career as a screen director. Kazakhstan nominated it for an Oscar and Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Achievement in Directing); it received NETPAC award in the 19th Black Nights Festival in Tallinn.
Ermek Tursunov was elected Chairman of the Kazakhstani Union of Filmmakers in 2018.
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03 June 2008
Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile couples children.
06 September 1997
It is hard to know the future. It is even more difficult to feel its inevitability. He is a tax collector.
30 November 2018
After the end of World War II, young Kazakh soldier saves an old German civilian from death. The old man gives him a bag with the most valuable thing that he has - a portable projector and some films.
21 October 2011
A film version of the famous Mukhlisov gang case. In May 2001, an audacious robbery of a collection car of one of the commercial banks of Almaty took place.
06 October 2008
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble.
02 April 2015
A drama about two orphan brothers who leave their home village and try to survive in big city.
01 August 1993
The eighteenth century. The Kazakh people are at a crossroads: either disappear from the face of the earth as a nation, or become part of Russia.
19 January 2010
After spending years in a notorious Thai prison, an enigmatic old man known as Mr. Ka returns to his homeland.
10 October 2012
This is a survival story - a Hemingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' as if written for our days.
26 June 2009
A woman is led by her family to her new husband's home, to live with, presumably, his elderly mother and younger brother.
22 September 2010
In the center of the plot are three friends, three old men who swore in the name of the happiness of their friend Kaltay to marry him, no matter what.
20 November 2008
A bipoic about Mustafa Shokai, a distinguished Kazakh politican of 1920's.
01 January 2022
The story is about three old men living in a quiet village. This village seems to be lost in time. The grandfathers, who were once friends but became rivals because of their love for one woman, now spend their days sitting on a bench under a tree.
06 June 2007
The son of a rich businessman who has ties with the Russian mob. But the mob sets up his family and forced the young guy at fighting in martial arts tournament.
07 September 2015
Orphaned by the brutal Soviet collectivization campaign of the 1930s, a young Kazakh boy takes to the mountains and lives amongst a pack of wolves.
01 August 2007
The five–year-old hero of the film, a city boy Kenzhe, finds himself in the village with his grandparents, while his father is sorting out trying to establish his business.
04 August 2014
An old man and his old woman live in a remote Kazakh village. People call the old man Shorty Kairgali without malice.
