Kamara Kamalova Explained

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Kamara Shadmanova Kamalova (born December 9, 1938) is an Uzbek filmmaker. She has been called "the most celebrated woman film-maker of Central Asia."^[1]

Kamara Kamalova was born in Bukhara, the daughter of a philosophy professor and a schoolteacher. After studying physics at Moscow State University, she entered the prestigious All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). After graduating in 1964, she worked for Uzbekfilm making animated films, then began making feature films starting with Gorkaya yagoda/Bitter Berry (1975). Most of her films are about children, coming of age stories, or young lovers.

Filmography

• Neobychnoe Prkluchenie (A Remarkable Adventure), 1966 (animated)^[2]
• Kio sdelal oblako? (Who Made a Cloud?), 1967 (animated)
• Rakhim I Zhuk (Rakhim anda Beetle), 1967 (animated)
• Poprygunchik (A Fidget), 1968 (animated)
• Gorkaya yagoda/Bitter Berry, 1975
• Chuzhoye shchastye/Other People's Happiness 1978^[3]
• Will You Go Out Tomorrow?, 1980^[4]
• About the Thing which never happened, 1985
• O tom, chego ne bylo/My Grandson Working in Police 1986
• Dikar/The Savage 1988
• Atrof Qorga Burkandi/All Around Was Covered by Snow 1995
• Jol Budsin/Happy Journey 2006^[5]
• Dorogapod Nebesami /The Road Under the Skies, 2006
• Unitma meni/Don't Forget Me, 2014^[6]
• Kim deya seni/TheRoad to Nowhere, 2022^[7]

Notes and References

1. Book: Donmez-Colin, Gonul . Cinemas of the other. A personal journey with film-makers from Central Asia . 2012 . Bristol : Intellect . Internet Archive . 978-1-84150-549-7.
2. Book: Bendazzi, Giannalberto . Animation : a world history . 2017 . Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group . Internet Archive . 978-1-138-85452-9.
3. Book: A Guide to world cinema : covering 7,200 films of 1950-84 including capsule reviews and stills from the programmes of the National Film Theatre, London . 1985 . London : Whittet Books in association with the British Film Institute ; Detroit, MI : Distributed in North America by Gale Research Co. . Internet Archive . 978-0-905483-33-7.
4. Kamila . HASANOVA . 2023-04-27 . KAMARA KAMALOVA'S DIRECTING METHODOLOGY AS A BRIGHT EXAMPLE OF AUTHOR'S THEORY IN UZBEK CINEMATOGRAPHY . МАДАНИЯТ ВА САНЪАТ ЖУРНАЛИ . 2 . 2 . 119–126 . 10.5281/zenodo.7871437.
5. Book: International film guide 2006 : the definitive annual review of world cinema . 2006 . London : Button . Internet Archive . 978-0-9548766-2-3.
6. Web site: UzDaily . Uzbek film wins prize in Moscow cinema festival . 2024-08-03 . UzDaily.uz . ru.
7. Kamila . HASANOVA . 2024-03-06 . THE PROBLEM OF GENERATIONS IN THE NEW FILM BY K. KAMALOVA "ROAD TO NOWHERE". . Journal of Culture and Art/КУЛЬТУРА И ИСКУССТВОМАДАНИЯТ ВА САНЪА . uz . 10.5281/ZENODO.10784400.