Saodat Ismailova

Saodat Ismailova is one of the representatives of a new generation of artists from Central Asia who came of age in the post-Soviet era. Born in Uzbekistan in 1981, she has lived for nearly two decades in Italy and France. After graduating from the State Art Institute of Tashkent, she co directed Aral: Fishing in an Invisible Sea, which won Best Documentary at the 2004 Turin Film Festival. In 2005 she was awarded DAAD – Artist in Residency program in Berlin where she developed the script of her debut award-winning feature film 40 Days of Silence, which was nominated for the best debut film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.