

Character comedy and short narrative timing
Myrzakhan Zhumakhan
A Kazakh AI creator whose comic short It Was Just a Joke won Best Character at the 2026 Astana AI Film Festival.
- In the collection
- 1 film
- Watch now
- 1
- Festival awards
- 1
- Years
- 2026
- Last active
- 2 Nov 2026
Films

Why follow this filmmaker
Myrzakhan Zhumakhan’s channel credits him with directing, generating and editing It Was Just a Joke, a comic short built around a household left to a younger brother and a dog. The Astana AI Film Festival’s 2026 Best Character award recognises the part of the film that matters most for comedy: a character whose behaviour stays readable from scene to scene.
His channel also hosts other shorts, tests and ads; only the award-winning narrative short is catalogued here. Wider credits, collaborators and social accounts have not been verified.