Nariman Turebayev

Nariman Turebayev directed a number of student films at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloy and at the Kazakhstan Arts Academy before working as a screenwriter and assistant director on Ardak Amirkulov's 1977.

Turebayev's short film Romantika in 2000 won the novelty and style prize at the Almaty student film festival. In 2001, he worked as assistant director on Darezhan Omirbayev's The Road and in the same year Turebayev directed the satirical short film, Antiromantika, which was screened at Cannes and won the Grand Prix at the Angers Film Festival.

In 2003, Turebayev directed his first feature, Little Men, which was nominated for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and it was followed by his second feature, Sunny Days, in 2011 which was competing in Locarno's Filmmakers of the present. Adventure from 2014 was Nariman Turebayev's third feature film.

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