Darezhan Omirbaev (Kazakh: Ð"арежан Омiрбаев, Darejan
Omirbaev; born 15 March 1958) is a Kazakh film director and
screenwriter.Omirbaev has directed nine films since 1982; six
features, one medium length digital film, and three shorts. His second
short, Shilde, shot in black and white, is autobiographical, as are
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. Tueur à gages, 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. About Love, based on a
story by Chekhov but also a kind of sequel to Kairat, was Omirbaev's
contribution to the Jeonju Film Festival's annual collection of short
digital pieces commissioned from filmmakers around the world. 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.
Omirbaev; born 15 March 1958) is a Kazakh film director and
screenwriter.Omirbaev has directed nine films since 1982; six
features, one medium length digital film, and three shorts. His second
short, Shilde, shot in black and white, is autobiographical, as are
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. Tueur à gages, 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. About Love, based on a
story by Chekhov but also a kind of sequel to Kairat, was Omirbaev's
contribution to the Jeonju Film Festival's annual collection of short
digital pieces commissioned from filmmakers around the world. 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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