Yolqin Tuychiev

Yolqin Tuychiev was born in 1977 in Tashkent. He graduated from the Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture in 1999 and studied at the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors in Moscow in 2000–2002.

He came to cinema in the early 2000s: with Ayub Shahobiddinov he made «Qor qo'ynida lola» (2003), and «Chashma» (2006), directed from his own script, won the best film of the Perspectives competition at the Moscow International Film Festival.

He went on to direct «Sukunat» (2008), «Farishtaginam» (2010), «P.S.» (2010), «Dunyo» (2012) and «Ma'suma» (2016), among others; for «P.S.» he shared the Golden Cyclo award of the Vesoul International Festival of Asian Cinema in 2011 with Liu Hao. He also wrote scripts for other directors, such as «Janob hech kim».

«2000 Songs of Farida» (2020) was Uzbekistan's submission for the Academy Award for best international feature, and «Evrilish» (2022) won an award at an international festival. His historical film «The Grand Amir and Donna Maria» is dated 2025.