Eldar Shibanov

Eldar Shibanov was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan in a family of hereditary architects. He took up work in the film industry in the production design department. Since 2010, he has been making independent films with his mother Yulia Levitskaya and his brother Dias Shibanov. Eldar participated in the Berlinale Talents program and the Asian Film Academy of Busan Film Festival where he won a scholarship from Tsai Ming Liang. In 2018 his short movie “Sex, Fear, and Hamburgers’ was selected for the Venice Film Festival. In 2021, together with Yulia Levitskaya, he was a finalist at the Biennale Cinema College with the Gornyi Luk project.