Saodat Ismailova
Artist, scriptwriter and film director from Uzbekistan · Uzbekistan · On the map · Directors · Born 1981 · age 45
Saodat Ismailova is an Uzbek filmmaker and artist who came of age in the post-Soviet era and has established an artistic life between Paris and Tashkent while remaining deeply engaged with her native region as a source of creative inspiration.
Saodat Ismailova is read about 18 times a day, in 7 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 1 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 142 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
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18000 WorldsFilm, Director2022
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Her Five LivesFilm, Director2020
Her RightFilm, Director2019
CemeteryFilm, Producer2017
Stains of OxusFilm, Director
The HauntedFilm, 2017Director2016
ChillpiqFilm, Director2014
40 Days of SilenceFilm, Director, Writer2013
ZukhraFilm, Director2004
Aral, Fishing in an Invisible SeaFilm, Director1981BornPeople around Saodat
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About this person
After graduating in film making from the Tashkent State Institute of Arts, she began a residency at Fabrica, a research and communication center in Italy. Since then she shares her time between Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Paris, France. She first achieved international recognition with the release of Zukhra, a video installation that recounts the history of Uzbekistan through a state of sleeping character. In 2014, she premiered her first feature film, 40 Days of Silence, at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was nominated for best debut film. She then went on to make a number of short films while at the Norwegian Office for Contemporary Art and Le Fresnoy, a French contemporary arts studio.
