Yermek Shinarbayev
Directing
Biography
Yermek Bektasuly Shinarbayev (Kazakh: Ермек Бектасұлы Шынарбаев; born 24 January, 1953; Alma-Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh film director. Shinarbaev is sometimes categorized as a member of the Kazakh New Wave. He is the only Kazakh director who is the owner of the Golden Leopard (winner of the Locarno Film Festival) for the film "The Place on a Grey Tricorne" (1993). He is especially well known for his collaboration with the Korean-Russian writer, Anatoli Kim, resulting to three films. The last of Shinarbaev-Kim film "Revenge" (1990), was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won the grand prize at Sochi Open Russian Film Festival in 1990.
Known For
Enraged, a teacher murders a young pupil. Over the years, another boy is bred for one sole purpose: to avenge his sister’s death.
Revenge
An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title. A group of agents try to thwart the Japanese-Soviet trade agreement by assassinating a Japanese businessman.
Trans-Siberian Express
Two men wander a Kazakh forest in search of mushrooms, whilst reflecting on their philosophies and memories.
To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing
A family saga about ordinary residents of Alma-Ata in a difficult period of the 90s. Family stories echo the history of the country. The modest life of yesterday's state employees and luxury apartments of new Russians and Kazakhs. How to get used to a new life without losing humanity?
Crossroad
Many years ago, on board a plane flying through the airspace of Kazakhstan, the wife of an influential Turkish oligarch gave birth to a girl. And the Kazakh doctor who delivered the baby had a one-year-old son. In a fit of feelings, the mothers decided to marry their children in the future… 25 years pass, and young people meet in Astana, where the business interests of Kazakh and Turkish builders intersect.
Astana - My Love
The film is a recollection of an adult about the unforgettable days of the first post-war year. Klava, who lost her husband at the front, with her 12-year-old daughter Lyusya sheltered Aygul with a seven-year-old boy in her house. Aygul's son - the main character, now became a pilot, recalls his childhood in a small Kazakh city, which fell on a difficult post-war time. Flying high above the Earth, he thinks of the Russian girl Lyusya, from his distant past.
My Sister Lucy
An epic drama about the life, love and creativity of the Kazakh poet Abai (1845-1904), an educator, thinker and politician of the 19th century.
Abai
A little boy Anatole lives in 1960s in the steppe in Kazakhstan with his parents-archaeologists. One day he witnesses the accidental death of his brother, this drama traumatizes the boy so much that he loses his ability to speak. Once he meets an old Kazakh who will teach him to hear again the world around him and will teach him how to speak again. The whole life of Anatole depends from now on from his ability to hear. His ear connects him to the world. 50 years later, the steppe calls him again.
La voix des steppes
A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.
The Market: A Tale of Trade
An exploration of “virgin soil” in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm.
A Taste of Bread
For Junior Lieutenant Lapshin, the first battle on the Far Eastern Front ended in failure: a Japanese suicide bomber threw himself under his tank and disabled him. Lapshin had private Komarov, a seasoned soldier and a former "penal guard" at his disposal from the entire crew. Yoshio Hanashi is also a suicide soldier who continues to fight alone...
Lantern Festival
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Master Class
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Monologues at the Piano
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Rodeo
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New Wave
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Duet
Gulnara meets a man and spends the night with him. He tells her beautiful and romantic love stories. She told him about her tragic love for two men at once. One idolized her, the other was the personification of inconstancy and infidelity, but she loved them both. Everything changed on that terrible night when one of her lovers was found dead…
Letters to an Angel
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Artist Erbolat Tolepbay
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Mazhit Begalin
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