Olga Korotko

Olga Korotko
Ольга Коротько 
Born19 January 1988 
OccupationFilm director 


Olga Korotko (born January 19, 1988)[1] is a Kazakh filmmaker based in Dubai.

Born in Oral, Kazakhstan, Korotko studied film at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts under Darezhan Omirbayev and later at the New York Film Academy.[2]

Her first feature film, Tak sebe zima/Bad Bad Winter (2018), premiered at the Association for Independent Cinema and its Distribution (ACID) section of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It is a psychological thriller about the daughter of an Astana businessman who returns to her childhood home to sell her grandmother's house and becomes embroiled in the coverup of a murder. [3] Her second feature film, Shegirtkeler, Vash Vyhod/Crickets, It's Your Turn (2024), was screened at the Locarno Film Festival.[4]

Filmography

  • Vtoraya mama (2011)[5]
  • Golub na kryshe/Dove on the Roof (2012)[1]
  • Reverence (2013)[5]
  • Obyknovennyy chelovek/An Ordinary Person (2015)[1]
  • A Date (2015)[1]
  • Green Shoes (2016)[5]
  • Dom mamy/House of Mothers (2017)[1]
  • Tak sebe zima/Bad Bad Winter (2018)
  • Shegirtkeler, Vash Vyhod/Crickets, It's Your Turn (2024)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "8th Jagran Film Festival, India - Catalogue by Diorama International Film Festival & Market - Issuu". issuu.com. 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
  2. ^ "Ольга Коротько, режиссер: «Женщина в наших фильмах остается лишь инструментом» - Аналитический интернет-журнал Власть". vlast.kz (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-08-08.
  3. ^ Shamsharkhan, Raushan (5 May 2018). "Kazakh director's film to be featured at Cannes independent film festival". Astana Times.
  4. ^ https://www.locarnofestival.ch/festival/program/film.html?fid=953db077-04f4-4662-b2f2-e490d390c847&l=en&eid=
  5. ^ a b c https://www.locarnofestival.ch/en/festival/program/person?pid=d35206a7-80a9-426d-9c5d-fedaf85bdef6