Adilkhan Yerzhanov is a film director and scriptwriter born in 1982 in Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
In 2009, he graduated from the Kazakh National Academy of Arts. Yerzhanov’s films have been screened and awarded at many international film festivals. He was a two-time participant of the Venice International Film festival (2020, 2022) and Cannes Film Festival (2014, 2018). He was the recipient of the ‘Asia Pacific Screen Awards’ for ‘Achievement in Directing’ in 2019 and the APSA Film Fund Development grant for A Dark, Dark Man (2019). In 2017, he was a member of the international jury of ‘Asia Pacific Screen Awards’. His film The Owners (2014) was included in the Asian Cinema 100 catalogue, published in 2015 by Busan International Film Festival.