Dinara Asanova

Dinara Asanova (Russian: Динара Кулдашевна Асанова) (24 November 1942 – 4 April 1985) was a Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director. She graduated high school in 1959 and began to work for Kyrgyzfilm from 1960-1962. She studied at VGIK and graduated in 1968. During her time there, she worked on Larisa Shepitko's 1963 film Heat.
She directed ten films between 1969 and 1984. Her first film, Rudolfio, was directed in 1970. She joined the Lenfilm studio in 1974. Her films were popular in the Soviet Union, they focused on such themes as social problems, social conditions and the tension between adolescents and adults. Asanova never had problems with the censors despite the fact that her films featured such themes.
Asanova's film Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique... was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
Although Asanova was Kyrgyzstani, it is noted by author Anna Lawton that "Her ethnic background is not apparent in her films, as she was able to assimilate the mood and her habits of her adoptive Russian city."

• Rudolfio (Рудольфио) (1970)
• Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches (Не болит голова у дятла) (1975)
• The Key That Should Not Be Handed On (Ключ без права передачи) (1976)
• Beda (1977)
• The Wife Has Left (Жена ушла) (1979)
• The Useless Girl (Никудышняя) (1980)
• What Did You Chose? (Что бы ты выбрал?) (1981)
• Boys (Пацаны) (1983)
• Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique... (Милый, дорогой, любимый, единственный) (1984)
• Deti razdorov (1984)