Emir Baigazin

Emir Baigazin
Born	(1984-07-19) July 19, 1984 Tamdy village, Alga District, Kazakhstan
Nationality	Kazakh

Emir Kenzhegazyuly Baigazin (Kazakh: Emır Kenjeǵazyuly Baıǵazın; born July 19, 1984) is a Kazakh actor and film director, active in the genres of auteur cinema and art-house.

Baigazin was born in Tamdy village, Alga District in the Aktobe Province of Kazakh SSR (USSR). After graduating from high school in Alga from 2002 to 2004 he studied at the acting school of the T. Akhtanov Aktobe Drama Theater, and in 2004 he entered the Kazakh National Academy of Arts, with the specialty of film direction and cinema. In September 2007, he participated in the Busan International Film Festival, the Asian Film Academy (AFA). In February 2008, he was a member of the Berlin camp of young talent at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival in Germany.

Filmography

• Day Watch (2005) — young Tamerlan.

Short films:

• Cheerful and Offended (Russian: Весёлые и обиженные, 2006) — screenwriter, director and cameraman.
• Steppe (Russian: Степь, 2007) — screenwriter, director and cameraman.
• Virgins (Russian: Девственники, 2007) — screenwriter and director.
• Весогонщик (2008) — screenwriter and director.
• Silhouettes of Almaty (Russian: Силуэты Алматы, 2007) — producer.

Feature films:

• Harmony Lessons (Kazakh: Асланның сабақтары, Russian: Уроки гармонии) is a 2013 Kazakh-German coproduction. It won Baigazin the Berlinale World Cinema Fund prize and was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. He was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Directing for this film.
• The Wounded Angel (Kazakh: Жаралы періште, Russian: Раненый ангел, 2016) premiered at the 66th Berlinale (Panorama Special). The film is a Kazakh-French-German co-production with the support of ARTE.
• The River (Kazakh: Ozen, 2018)