Olga Korotko
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Olga Korotko | |
|---|---|
| Ольга Коротько | |
| Born | 19 January 1988 |
| Occupation | Film director |
Olga Korotko (born January 19, 1988)[1] is a Kazakh filmmaker based in Dubai.
Born in Oral, Kazakhstan, Korotko studied film at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts under Darezhan Omirbayev and later at the New York Film Academy.[2]
Her first feature film, Tak sebe zima/Bad Bad Winter (2018), premiered at the Association for Independent Cinema and its Distribution (ACID) section of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It is a psychological thriller about the daughter of an Astana businessman who returns to her childhood home to sell her grandmother's house and becomes embroiled in the coverup of a murder. [3] Her second feature film, Shegirtkeler, Vash Vyhod/Crickets, It's Your Turn (2024), was screened at the Locarno Film Festival.[4]