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Saodat Ismailova

Saodat Ismailova

Known for

Directing

Birthplace

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Biography

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...

Best known work

Cemetery

Cemetery

2019
Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea

Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea

2004
40 Days of Silence

40 Days of Silence

2014
Her Right

Her Right

2020
Swan Lake

Swan Lake

2025
Zukhra

Zukhra

2013
18000 Worlds

18000 Worlds

2023
Bibi Seshanbe

Bibi Seshanbe

2022
Stains of Oxus

Stains of Oxus

2017
Chillpiq

Chillpiq

2016

Filmography

  1. 2026

    To the throat of Sun

    Director

  2. 2025

    Swan Lake

    Director

  3. 2024

  4. 2023

    18000 Worlds

    Director

  5. 2022

    Bibi Seshanbe

    Director, Writer

  6. 2021

  7. 2020

    Her Right

    Director

  8. 2019

    Cemetery

    Producer

  9. 2017

    The Haunted

    Director

  10. 2017

  11. 2017

    Two Horizons

    Director

  12. 2016

    Chillpiq

    Director

  13. 2014

    40 Days of Silence

    Screenplay, Director, Writer

  14. 2013

    Zukhra

    Director

  15. 2004

    Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea

    Director of Photography, Director

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