Saodat Ismailova
Directing
Saodat Ismailova (1981, Uzbekistan) is a filmmaker and artist who lives and works between Tashkent and Paris. Her works have been presented in solo exhibitions at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing; Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam; the Center for Contemporary Art Tashkent; Tromsø Kunstforening; and the Kunstsammlungen & Museen Augsburg, among others. Ismailova’s works have also been featured in group shows at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Sharjah Biennal (2023); Para Site, Hong Kong; documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022); and Biennale Arte 2022 and 2013. Works by Ismailova are in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Almaty Museum of Arts; FRAC Corsica; and Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, among others. In 2022, she was awarded the Eye Prize for Art and Film, Amsterdam. She is the initiator of the educational program CCA Lab and the Tashkent Film Encounters; and she is the founder of the DAVRA research group, which is dedicated to studying, documenting, and disseminating Central Asian culture and knowledge.
Behind the camera
2026To the throat of Sun
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2025Swan Lake
Director
2024Melted into the Sun
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202318000 Worlds
Director
2022Bibi Seshanbe
Director & Writer
2021Her Five Lives
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2020Her Right
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2017Two Horizons
Director
2017Stains of Oxus
Director
2017The Haunted
Director
2016Chillpiq
Director
201440 Days of Silence
Director & Screenplay & Writer
2013Zukhra
Director
2004Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea
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