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.
Known for
Cemetery
July 11, 2019
Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea
June 23, 2004
40 Days of Silence
February 7, 2014
Her Right
July 11, 2020
Swan Lake
November 8, 2025
Zukhra
November 1, 2013
18000 Worlds
January 21, 2023
Bibi Seshanbe
June 18, 2022
Stains of Oxus
January 1, 2017
Chillpiq
January 1, 2016
Two Horizons
January 1, 2017
Melted into the Sun
April 17, 2024
Behind the camera15
- 2026To the throat of Sun Director
- 2025Swan Lake Director
- 2024Melted into the Sun Director
- 202318000 Worlds Director
- 2022Bibi Seshanbe Director, Writer
- 2021Her Five Lives Director
- 2020Her Right Director
- 2019Cemetery Producer
- 2017The Haunted Director
- 2017Stains of Oxus Director