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{{Infobox person
| image        = Darezhan Omirbaev.jpg
| name         = Darezhan Omirbaev
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1958|3|15|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Akkol]], [[Kazakh SSR]]
| death_date   =
| death_place  =
| occupation   = Film director<br>Screenwriter
| yearsactive  = 1982–present
}}
'''Darezhan Omirbaev''' ({{lang-kk|Дарежан Омiрбаев}}, born 15 March 1958) is a Kazakh [[film director]] and [[screenwriter]]. 

==Work==
Omirbaev has directed nine films since 1982; six features, one medium length digital film, and three shorts. His second short, ''Shilde,'' shot in black and white, is autobiographical, as are his first two features ''Kairat'' (also shot in black and white) and ''[[Cardiogram]]'', which premiered at the [[52nd Venice International Film Festival|52nd edition]] of the [[Venice Film Festival]], winning the CICT/UNESCO Prize.<ref>{{cite news|last1=David Rooney|title= Venice Fest goes 'Cyclo'|url=http://variety.com/1995/film/features/venice-fest-goes-cyclo-99130163/|accessdate=21 October 2015|publisher=''Variety''|date=September 18, 1995}}</ref> ''[[Tueur à gages]]'', a crime story inspired by Tolstoy's "The Forged Coupon", screened in the [[Un Certain Regard]] section at the [[1998 Cannes Film Festival]], where it won the [[Un Certain Regard|Prize Un Certain Regard]].<ref name="Cannes1998">{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/10310/year/1998.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Killer |accessdate=4 October 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref>

''[[The Road (2001 film)|Jol]]'', Omirbaev's subsequent film, was a return to autobiography, a poetic story of a filmmaker in the vein of ''8 1/2'', starring Tajik filmmaker Djamshed Usmonov. ''About Love'', based on a story by Chekhov but also a kind of sequel to ''Kairat,'' was Omirbaev's contribution to the Jeonju Film Festival's annual collection of short digital pieces commissioned from filmmakers around the world. ''Shuga'' and ''Student'' were departures for Omirbaev, both based on literary works - respectively, Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina'' and Dostoyevsky's ''Crime and Punishment.'' ''[[Student (film)|Student]]'' competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the [[2012 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="Official Selection">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/58878.html |title=2012 Official Selection |accessdate=20 May 2012 |work=Cannes}}</ref><ref name="slantmagazine">{{cite web |url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2012/05/cannes-film-festival-2012-student/ |title=Cannes Film Festival 2012: Student |accessdate=20 May 2012 |work=slantmagazine}}</ref>

==Filmography==
* ''[[Zhizn (film)|Zhizn]]'' (short) (1982)
* ''[[Shilde|July]]'' (short) (1988)
* ''[[Kairat]]'' (1992)
* ''[[Kardiogramma|Cardiogram]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Killer (1998 film)|Killer]]'' (1998)
* ''[[The Road (2001 film)|The Road]]'' (2001)
* ''[[About Love]]'' (medium-length film included in ''Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk  to Her)'' (2006)
* ''[[Shuga (film)|Shuga]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Student (film)|Student]]'' (2012)
* ''[[Reverence (film)|Reverence]]'' (Documentary short, co-directed by Olga Korotko) (2013)

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0648421|Darezhan Omirbaev}}

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