Eurasia International Film Festival Explained

Eurasia International Film Festival is an international film festival held in Kazakhstan. With the exception of the fifth, held in Astana, all the editions were held in Almaty.

During the seventh festival in 2011, the Alley of Stars of Kazakh Cinema was inaugurated.

Major award winners

Year	Best Film Grand Prix	Best Director	Best Male Performance	Best Female Performance
1998 1st^[1]	Beshkempir	Serik Aprymov for Aksuat		Dalia Micheleviciute for Lunar Lithuania
2005 2nd	The Tuner	Alexander Sokurov for The Sun	Issey Ogata for The Sun	Alla Demidova for The Tuner
2006 3rd	Eden	Zhang Yuan for Little Red Flowers	Masatō Ibu for Sway	Ladan Mostofi for Goodnight Commander
2007 4th	Half Moon	Alexei Popogrebski for Simple Things	Leonid Bronevoy for Simple Things	Fan Bingbing for Lost in Beijing
2008 5th	Farewell, Gulsary!	Damiyar Salamat for Together with Father	Diyas Rakhmatov for Little People Bakhytzhan Alpeisov for Together with Father	Irina Ageikina for Song from the Southern Seas
2010 6th^[2]	The Light Thief	Pelin Esmer for 10 to 11	Andrey Merzlikin for Strayed	Darya Gorshkaleva for Gastarbeiter
2011 7th^[3]	Before the Storm	Nariman Turebaev for Sunny Days	Theodór Júlíusson for Volcano	Olga Simanova for Beduin
2012 8th		Özcan Alper for Future Lasts Forever Małgorzata Szumowska for Elles	Azamat Nigmanov for The Convoy	Anaïs Demoustier for Elles
2013 9th^[4]	In Bloom	Serik Aprymov for Little Brother	Carlo Cecchi for Miele Koh Jia Ler for Ilo Ilo	Jördis Triebel for My Sisters Elahe Hesari for Don't worry Sarah
2014 10th^[5]	Next to Her	Benedikt Erlingsson for Of Horses and Men	4 male actors for Tangerines	Tinatin Dalakishvili for Star
2015 11th^[6]	Heavenly Nomadic	Elchin Musaoglu for Nabat	Erzhan Nurymbet for Stranger	Fatemeh Motamed-Arya for Nabat
2016 12th^[7]	House of Others	Adilkhan Erjanov for The Plague at the Karatas Village	Yury Pomarantsev for Once a Week	Emmanuelle Devos for Moka
2017 13th^[8]	Returnee	Aktan Abdykalykov for Centaur	Gurban Ismailov for Pomegranate Orchard	Ia Shugliashvili for My Happy Family
2018 14th^[9]	The Party's Over	Milko Lazarev for Aga	Karim Mirkhadiyev for Perseverance	Marta Kozlova for Anna’s War
2019 15th^[10]	The Secret of a Leader	Bong Joon-ho for Parasite	for Echo	Emilie Piponnier for Alice