Yermek Shinarbayev (also translated as Ermek Shinarbaev; Kazakh: Ermek Bektasūly Şynarbaev, Ермек Бектасұлы Шынарбаев) is a Soviet film director. Born in 1953 in Alma-Ata, Soviet Union (now Almaty, Kazakhstan), Shinarbaev is sometimes categorized as a member of the Kazakh New Wave. He is especially well known for his collaboration with the Korean-Russian writer, Anatoli Kim, resulting to three films. The last of Shinarbaev-Kim film Mest (Revenge), was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won the grand prize at Sochi Open Russian Film Festival in 1990. ()