Yermek Shinarbayev
Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Almaty, Kazakhstan)

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.

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Kazakh Lessons (2021)
Director | Screenplay | Producer
Aktoty (2016)
Director | Writer
La voix des steppes (2014)
Director
Letters to an Angel (2009)
Director | Screenplay
The Market: A Tale of Trade (2008)
Associate Producer
Paradise Lost (2006)
Director
Abai (1995)
Producer
Tender Heart (1994)
Director
The Place on the Tricorne (1993)
Director
Revenge (1990)
Director
To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing (1987)
Director
My Sister Lucy (1985)
Director
A Beauty in Mourning (1981)
Director
A Taste of Bread (1979)
Assistant Director
Trans-Siberian Express (1977)
Assistant Director