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Darezhan Omirbaev

{{short description|Kazakh film director}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}}

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| name = Darezhan Omirbaev

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|3|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Akkol, Kazakh SSR

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| occupation = Film director, screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1982–present

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Darezhan Omirbaev ({{langx|kk|Дарежан Омiрбаев}}, Darejan Omırbaev; born 15 March 1958) is a Kazakh film director and screenwriter.{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|isbn=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=500–501}}

Work

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.{{cite magazine|last1=David Rooney|title= Venice Fest goes 'Cyclo'|url=https://variety.com/1995/film/features/venice-fest-goes-cyclo-99130163/|accessdate=21 October 2015|magazine=Variety|date=18 September 1995}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/10310/year/1998.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Killer |accessdate=4 October 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/58878.html |title=2012 Official Selection |accessdate=20 May 2012 |work=Cannes}}{{cite web |url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2012/05/cannes-film-festival-2012-student/ |title=Cannes Film Festival 2012: Student |accessdate=20 May 2012 |work=slantmagazine|date=18 May 2012 }}

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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rowspan="1" |2023

| Asian Film Awards

| Best Director

| Poet

| {{Pending}}

| style="text-align:center" rowspan="1"|{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/01/asian-film-awards-decision-to-leave-leads-nominations-1235212781/ |last=Ntim |first=Zac |title=Asian Film Awards: Decision to Leave And Drive My Car Lead Nominations |date=6 January 2023|access-date=6 January 2023|website=Deadline Hollywood}}

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0648421|Darezhan Omirbaev}}

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Category:1958 births

Category:Living people

Category:Kazakhstani film directors

Category:Kazakhstani screenwriters