Akhtem Seitablayev

Akhtem Shevketovych Seitablayev (born 11 December 1972) is a Ukrainian actor, screenwriter and film director of Crimean Tatar origin. He is the director of several high-profile films, including Haytarma in 2013, Cyborgs in 2017, The Rising Hawk in 2019, and Myrnyi-21 in 2023. He has expressed opposition to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and his films about the fate of several prominent Crimean Tatars have been praised throughout the former Soviet Union but criticized by hardline Russian nationalists.