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Directors, cinematographers, producers and lead actors — each profile carries a verified festival track record, working languages and a base city the AI agent can shortlist by.
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directors
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DOPs
2
producers
11
actors
Director / Writer
Founder of the Partisan Cinema collective. Painterly, deadpan steppe-set crime dramas. Cannes, Venice, San Sebastián and Tribeca regular.
Director / Writer
Author of the steppe trilogy. Berlinale Silver Bear winner known for rigorous symmetry, long takes and adolescence as moral landscape.
Director / Writer
Bressonian master of the Kazakh New Wave. Minimalist adaptations of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky transposed to contemporary Almaty.
Director / Writer
Documentary-rooted director crafting immersive, physically demanding fiction set in the steppe and the post-Soviet city.
Director / Producer
Leading commercial auteur. Builds large-scale historical and genre productions for both domestic blockbusters and international festivals.
Director / Actor
Actor-turned-director whose debut took the top prize in Tokyo. Roots his cinema in Kazakh ritual, kinship and the silence of the steppe.
Cinematographer
DOP with a precise, naturalistic eye for steppe and small-town landscapes. Comfortable on Alexa, anamorphic and large-format setups.
Director
Founding figure of the Kazakh New Wave of the late 1980s. Long-form, novelistic cinema rediscovered by Western festivals and cinematheques.
Lead actress
One of the region's most internationally recognised actors. Carries demanding, physically immersive roles with documentary precision.
Lead actor
Yerzhanov's recurring lead. Magnetic, restrained presence equally at home in arthouse and genre productions.
Producer
Producer of the Partisan Cinema slate. Specialises in lean international co-productions and festival strategy from Cannes to Venice.
Lead actress
Discovered for the title role of the Saka warrior queen Tomiris. Trained horsewoman, fluent in stunt and combat work.
Lead actor
Soft-spoken romantic lead of the Partisan Cinema slate. Trained at the Zhurgenov Academy of Arts.
Lead actress
Rising star of contemporary Kazakh auteur cinema. Recurring lead in Yerzhanov's slate.
Lead actor
Heavy-presence character actor cast as warlords, investigators and patriarchs across the new Kazakh genre wave.
Lead actress
Breakout lead of Yerzhanov's Tribeca selection. Quiet, physical performer with a documentary intensity.
Lead actor
Versatile leading man crossing between minimalist arthouse and high-concept thrillers.
Lead actress
Young actress associated with the post-2020 generation of Kazakh festival cinema.
Lead actor
Kazakh actor with international series credits. Comfortable in English-language productions and large-scale historical epics.
