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Elmar Imanov
Profession:
DirectorWriter
Country:
Germany
Elmar Imanov was born in 1985 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Since 1998 he has lived in Cologne, Germany. After several internships in feature films in Germany and Azerbaijan, he studied film directing at the ifs international film school in Cologne. His graduation film "The Swing of the Coffin Maker" (2012) was shown at more than 120 film festivals and won 41 awards worldwide, including the Student Academy Award / Student Oscar® in the category "Best Foreign Film". His next short film TORN (2014) had its world premiere in Quinzaine des Réalisateurs / Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. Both films were produced by Eva Blondiau, with whom he founded the film production company COLOR OF MAY. His feature film debut "End of the Season" (2019) celebrated its world premiere at IFF Rotterdam and was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film. Elmar also co-wrote, co-directed and produced films shown at Karlovy Vary, Toronto, BFI London, Clermont-Ferrand, Rotterdam, Nyon, DokLeipzig, HotDocs, IDFA etc.
He mostly collaborated with filmmakers from all over the world bringing people from different cultural backgrounds together.
His newest film as writer/director “The Kiss of the Grasshopper” will have its world premiere at the Berlinale 2025 and is produced by Eva Blondiau from COLOR OF MAY as well.
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