Nariman Turebayev (b. 1970, Kazakhstan) studied at the Moscow Institute of Steels and Alloys and the Kazakh National Academy of Arts; he began making films while still a student. As an assistant and screenwriter he worked on Ardak Amirkulov's 1977. Turebayev's short film Romantika (2000) won an award for its originality and style at the Kazakh student film festival in Almaty. In 2001 he was assistant to director Darezhan Omirbayev on the set of La route (2001). His short Antiromantika screened at Cannes and won the Grand Prix at the Angers FF. Little Men (Malenkiye lyudi, 2003), awarded at Cottbus in 2003, was shown in the East of the West section at Karlovy Vary in 2004. Another film he wrote and directed, Sunny Days (Solnechnye dni, 2011), competed at Locarno.
MFF Karlovy Vary
