Yalkin Tuychiev (born 1977), also written Elkin Tuychiev, Yolqin Tuychiev, Yolkin Tuychiev, Yolqin Toʻychiyev, is a filmmaker from Uzbekistan. He is known for the award-winning films 2000 Songs of Farida (2020) and P.S. (2010), and both directs films and writes the scripts for them.
Tuychiev was born in 1977 in Tashkent, then a state of the Soviet Union known as the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.[1]
He attended the Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture in Tashkent, graduating in 1999. The following year he attended the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors in Moscow,[1] graduating in 2002.[2]
His films have been selected to several film festivals including the Moscow, Tokyo, Tallinn, Busan and Adelaide Film Festivals.[1]
His films (as director and writer unless otherwise indicated) include:[1][3]
Chasma won "Best Film of the Perspectives Competition" at the Moscow Film Festival in 2006.[4]
Tuychiev was co-winner of the Golden Cyclo Award at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, for his film P.S. in 2011, sharing the award with Liu Hao.[5]