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Kyrgyzstan

Filmmaker · Kyrgyzstan

Aktan Arym Kubat

Aktan Arym Kubat, long known as Aktan Abdykalykov, was born on 26 March 1957 in the Sokuluk district, near Bishkek. Trained in the visual arts, he was a painter and set designer at the Kirghizfilm studios before moving into directing through the short film. A member of his country's national film academy and of the European academy, he has shown his films at Cannes, in two parallel sections, and at Berlin, and has since directed four other feature films.

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