Kazakh director of film ‘Akyn’ named best at Tokyo International Film Festival

Kazakh film ‘Akyn’ directed by Darezhan Omirbayev was awarded the prize at the prestigious Tokyo International Film Festival. It won the Best Director award. The film tells the story of a poet who is afraid to be misunderstood and irrelevant in the age of technological development. The script was written on the basis of the story of the German writer Hermann Hesse. In 2019, this project won the competition of the State Center for the Support of National Cinema. Filming took place in Almaty, Almaty region and in Atyrau near the Makhambet Otemisuly Mausoleum. Tokyo International Film Festival is one of the most prestigious, and is among the Top 15 leading film festivals in the world accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF).

Translation by Assem Zhanmukhanova

Edited by Saule Mukhamejanova