Poet (Kazakh: Ақын, Akyn) is a 2021 Kazakhstani drama film written and directed by Darezhan Omirbaev.

Based on The Author’s Evening by Hermann Hesse, the film depicts story of Didar, a poet chained to his day job in a small newspaper.

[4][5] Darezhan Omirbayev conceived the idea for the screenplay, when he was reading a short story The Author’s Evening by Hermann Hesse, whose lead character was an artist.

Morel opined that "more than a fight, poetry appears in it as an enterprise of resistance which consists in detecting, within the very interior of the capitalist machine, the beauty nestled in the most trivial elements.

"[14] Vincent Ostria of L'Humanité rated it with 5 stars and opined that Darezhan Omirbayev belongs to tongue-in-cheek movement, "which looks at the world in a dubious mode, while emphasising the beauty of a gesture and the irreducible strangeness of reality."