Olga Korotko

Olga Korotko (born January 19, 1988)[1] is a Kazakh filmmaker based in Dubai.

Born in Oral, Kazakhstan, Korotko studied film at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts under Darezhan Omirbayev and later at the New York Film Academy.

[2] Her first feature film, Tak sebe zima/Bad Bad Winter (2018), premiered at the Association for Independent Cinema and its Distribution (ACID) section of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

It is a psychological thriller about the daughter of an Astana businessman who returns to her childhood home to sell her grandmother's house and becomes embroiled in the coverup of a murder.

[3] Her second feature film, Shegirtkeler, Vash Vyhod/Crickets, It's Your Turn (2024), was screened at the Locarno Film Festival.