Yermek Shinarbayev

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
- Directing
- Born
- 1953-01-24 · Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Known for
- Revenge (1990) — Director
- The Market: A Tale of Trade (2008) — Associate Producer
- Trans-Siberian Express (1977) — Assistant Director
- A Taste of Bread (1979) — Assistant Director
- The Place on the Tricorne (1993) — Director
- My Sister Lucy (1985) — Director
- Abai (1995) — Producer
- Tender Heart (1994) — Director
- To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing (1987) — Director
- Lantern Festival (1980)
- Mazhit Begalin (1981) — Director
- New Wave (1983) — Director
- Rodeo (1983) — Director
- Monologues at the Piano (1986) — Director
- Concert in Barbican Hall (1998) — Director
- Duet (1998) — Director