Uzbek filmmaker
Kamara Shadmanova Kamalova (born December 9, 1938) is an Uzbek filmmaker. She has been called "the most celebrated woman film-maker of Central Asia."[1]
Kamara Kamalova was born in Bukhara, the daughter of a philosophy professor and a schoolteacher. After studying physics at Moscow State University, she entered the prestigious All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). After graduating in 1964, she worked for Uzbekfilm making animated films, then began making feature films starting with Gorkaya yagoda/Bitter Berry (1975). Most of her films are about children, coming of age stories, or young lovers.[1]
Filmography
- Neobychnoe Prkluchenie (A Remarkable Adventure), 1966 (animated)[2]
- Kto sdelal oblako? (Who Made a Cloud?), 1967 (animated)[2]
- Rakhim I Zhuk (Rakhim anda Beetle), 1967 (animated)[2]
- Poprygunchik (A Fidget), 1968 (animated)[2]
- Gorkaya yagoda/Bitter Berry, 1975[1]
- Chuzhoye shchastye/Other People's Happiness 1978[3]
- Zavtra vyydesh'?/Will You Go Out Tomorrow?, 1980[4]
- Nash vnuk rabotayet v militsii/My Grandson Working in Police 1984 [1]
- O tom, chego ne bylo/About the Thing which never happened, 1986[4]
- Dikar/The Savage 1988 [1]
- Atrof Qorga Burkandi/All Around Was Covered by Snow 1995 [1]
- Jol Budsin/Happy Journey 2006[5]
- Dorogapod Nebesami /The Road Under the Skies, 2006[1]
- Unitma meni/Don't Forget Me, 2014[6]
- Kim deya seni/TheRoad to Nowhere, 2022[7]
References