Kazakh Director of Photography Boris Troshev graduated from VGIK (Institute of Higher Cinema Studies) workshop of Valentin Zheleznikov in the faculty of cinematography in 1995.
In the same year he made his feature film debut as cinematographer on Darezhan Omirbayev’s Cardiogram (Kardiogramma) which premiered In Competition at the Venice Film Festival, winning the UNESCO prize. It went on to win the Jury Prize in Nantes and the Grand Prix in Singapore International Film Festival.
He was cinematographer on all three films of Omirbayev that were selected for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival –Student (2012), The Road (Jol 2001), and Killer (Tueur à gages 1988), which was awarded the Prix Un Certain Regard. Their latest collaboration, Poet (Akyn 2021), world premiered at the Berlinale.
Also in Kyrgyzstan he shot four films for director Marat Sarulu – Maria (2018), Moving (2014), Mother (2013) and Salt (2011).
His work in Kazakhstan includes Sergey Dvortsevoy’s documentary Happiness (1996), Yerbol Zhumagulov’s The Book (2013), Nariman Turebaev’s Sunny Days (2011), Darejan Omirbayev’s Shuga (2007), Zhanabek Zhetyrusov’s Notes of the Pathfinder (2006), Bulat Sharip’s Innocent Sin (2005), Nariman Turebaev’s Little People (2003), Serik Aprymov’s Aksuat (1997) and he has worked twice with director Daniyar Salamat on Baiterek (2009) and Together with my Father (2008).
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