Zhanna Issabayeva (Kazakh: Жанна Исабаева; born 1 January 1968; Almaty) is a Kazakh film director, screenwriter and producer. She graduated from the journalism faculty of Kazakh States University in 1991. She has worked as a producer and director since 1993. In 2007 debuted with the full-length feature film Karoy (2007) which took part in Venice Film Festival, "Critics Week" and was nominated for "Best Asian Director 2007" at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Total trailers found: 10
14 October 2015
Teenager Ruslan is a half-orphan who lives by the dried Aral Sea. When he learns that due to serious illness he has no more than 3 months to live, Ruslan decides to punish those responsible for the death of his beloved mother.
07 October 2020
Nineteen-year-old young man Azat moves from the village to Almaty to work as a bricklayer at a construction site in the brigade of his older brother.
01 January 2011
The film contains 13 different short stories about the first sexual experience. This is a mosaic of various feelings, emotions, joys and sufferings of young and not so young heroes.
01 May 2026
A young filmmaker travels across Asia to document independent women directors, but their stories bring her own past to the surface.
29 October 2017
Suddenly laid off from a factory staffed by deaf-mute people, Sveta’s house loan pushes her into a highly unethical line of work.
19 March 2009
Amidst the plains of the Kazakhstan steppes lives a mother and Eldon, the youngest of her five grown-up children.
22 November 2018
This is the story of a young woman, Aiganym, who was born into the Orthodox Kazakh family from the South of Kazakhstan.
07 February 2014
Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness.
01 August 2012
The main character of the film, 11-year-old Talgat, lives on the outskirts of Alma-Ata in a dysfunctional family that consists of alcoholic parents, six-year-old sister Guli and mentally ill uncle Nurik.
