DUSHANBE, April 22, 2015, Asia-Plus – Well-known Tajik-Russian filmmaker Bakhtiyor Khudoinazarov died in a clinic in the German capital, Berlin, yesterday aged 49.

Bakhtiyor Khudojnazarov (May 29, 1965 – April 21, 2015) was a film director, producer and screenwriter from Tajikistan.  

He became well-known across the former Soviet Union for his movie Lunny Papa (A Moon Dad).  In this hilariously surreal adventure through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, the story of a young, simple Tajik girl is narrated by her unborn child.

Bakhtiyor Khudoinazarov won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his movie Kosh ba Kosh  (1993).

In 2000 he was a member of the jury at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival.

Another Khudoinazarov movie, Waiting for the Sea , about a Kazakh man''s ordeal near the disappearing Aral Sea, opened the Rome Film Festival in 2012. 

Khudoinazarov was born in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Cinematography VGIK in 1989.

One of Khudoinazarov''s last movies was Major Sokolov''s Courtesans presented in Russian theaters in 2014.