Director: Gulshat Omarova

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Birthday: 1968-10-08
Born in: Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Biography: Gulshat Diasovna Omarova (Kazakh: Гүльшад Диасқызы Өмарова, Gülşad Diasqyzy Ömarova; sometimes credited as Guka Omarova, born 8 October 1968) is a Kazakh film director, actress and screenwriter. She was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and now lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 2004, Omarova was presented the Alice Award for Best Female Director by the Copenhagen International Film Festival for her film, Shiza. Gulshat Omarova was born in Alma-Ata to a family of a journalist. Her father was the sports writer Dias Omarov and her mother worked in "Vechernyaya Alma-Ata". Her grandmother was the director of the High Mountain Ice Skating rink "Medeo" and her grandfather was a high official in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1984, when she was 14 years old girl, she started her career in the film called "Sladkiy sok vnutri travy" (Sweet juice in the grass), which was written and directed by Sergei Bodrov. After graduating from school at the Union of Cinematographers in Moscow, she met with Sergei Gerasimov, who was the Soviet film director, actor, screenwriter, playwright, teacher and professor. However, that year he was recruiting a group exclusively for children from Azerbaijan. He advised her to enter the next year. In the same year, Sergei Bodrov, with difficulty knocked out a place for her through the State Film Agency. This year it was watched by Alexey Batalov's apprentice, but Batalov himself left for Baku. The apprentice really liked the will and aspiration of Gulshat, so they said that next year they could take her without exams. But she went back to Alma-Ata and entered the correspondence course in Journalism. After graduating from the Faculty of Journalism, she began working on television. She worked as an administrator, courier, auxiliary worker. Then she worked as an advertiser for "Philip Morris Kazakhstan". Then Gulshat Omarova and Sergei Bodrov wrote the scenario for the film "Sisters", which was released in 2001. The first names of the film were “Belly dance”, then “Bandit's daughter”. Since the early 2000s, she lives with his son and husband in Netherlands, the city of Rotterdam. Sergei Bodrov in 2004 came out the picture Shiza, where Omarova presented her directorial debut, which was co-authored and co-produced by Bodrov. In 2004 she was awarded the Alice Award for the film "Shiza" in the category "Best Female Director" at the Copenhagen International Film Festival and received an Oscar nomination for her 2007 film "Mongol".

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Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.
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Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

2007

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Sisters

A movie about two sisters - thirteen year old Sveta, poor and abandoned by her father, who longs to go off and be a sniper in the army, and spoilt eight-year old Dina, doted on by her gangster father...
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Schizo

Fifteen year old Mustafa has a nickname Schizo. He is hired by his mother’s boyfriend to find fighters for illegal fistfights. His life is changed forever when a young man mortally beaten in one of the fights asks Schizo to deliver his prize money to his girlfriend and young son. Schizo takes the money to the woman as promised and falls in love with her. Now he knows for whom he has to make money, no matter what the cost. In fistfights there are no rules… until blood is spilled!
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A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries

Yuriko, a daughter of Yakudza boss is lost in Russia. Here she finds Alexey - a young man who is trying to help her.
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A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries

2010

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