Jamshed Usmonov

Jamshed Usmonov was born on Jan 13, 1965 in USSR [now Tajikistan]. Jamshed Usmonov's big-screen debut came with The Flight of the Bee directed by Byung-hun Min in 1998.

Jamshed Usmonov was born in Asht, Tajikistan. After graduating from the Arts Institute, he started producing, writing and directing documentaries as well as animation and fiction movies. In 1991, he started shooting "The Well", a medium-length film that he managed to complete only in 2000, after the end of the civil war. Usmanov's first feature dates from 1998: Le vol de l'abeille (1998) (The Flight of the Bee), but the director gained international recognition only four years later with L'ange de l'épaule droite (2002) (Angel on the Right), a colorful fable set in his native Asht, and with Pour aller au ciel, il faut mourir (2006) (To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die), the dark portrait of a young married man with sexual problems. His last film to date, Le roman de ma femme (2011), is a film noir about a man who goes missing and the consequences it involves. Also in France, he appeared as an actor embodying a foreign art film director produced by the hero of Mia Hansen-Løve's sensitive Le père de mes enfants (2009) Grégoire Canvel.)