Yalkin Tuychiev (born 1977), also written Elkin Tuychiev, Yolqin Tuychiev, Yolkin Tuychiev, Yolqin Toʻychiyev, is a

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from

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. He is known for the award-winning films '' 2000 Songs of Farida'' (2020) and ''P.S.'' (2010), and both directs films and writes the scripts for them.

Early life and education

Tuychiev was born in 1977 in

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, then a state of the

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known as the

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. He attended the

Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture (UzSIAC), based on the original Ostrovsky Institute and created by merging the Uzbekistan Institute of Arts and Tashkent State Institute of Culture in 2012, is a state-run higher education institut ...

in Tashkent, graduating in 1999. The following year he attended the

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, graduating in 2002.

Films

His films have been selected to several film festivals including the

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and

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s. His films (as director and writer unless otherwise indicated) include: *''Teenager'' (2005) *''Chasma'' (2006) * ''Kechikkan hayot'' (2010) (writer) *''P.S.'' (2010) * ''Afgʻon'' (2012) *''Dunyo'' (2012) *''House for Mermaids'' (2015) *''Maʼsuma'' (2016) * ''Born Out of the Ashes'' (2019) (writer) *'' 2000 Songs of Farida'' (2020) *''Evrilish'' (2022)

Awards

''Chasma'' won "Best Film of the Perspectives Competition" at the Moscow Film Festival in 2006. Tuychiev was co-winner of the

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at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, for his film ''P.S.'' in 2011, sharing the award with Liu Hao.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuychiev, Yalkin 1977 births Living people Uzbekistani film directors