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Amir Bulatovich Karakulov (Kazakh: Амир Булатович Каракулов; 11 September 1965; Alma Ata) is a Soviet and Kazakh director and screenwriter. He is the only Kazakh director who has received Tiger Award (won the 26th Rotterdam Film Festival) for film "Last Holiday" (1996). He studied at the University of Kazakhstan, worked there for two years in the journalism department and then studied for three years at the Moscow film academy VGIK. His feature debut "Woman Between Two Brothers" was given the Fipresci Prize at the Moscow Film Festival.

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