Cannes: Team behind Dvortsevoy's "Ayka" walks the red carpet Kazakh actress Samal Yeslyamova wins best actress at the Cannes film festival for playing a jobless single mother from post-Soviet Central Asia adrift in Moscow in Sergey Dvortsevoy's "Ayka". The 33-year-old actress, who also starred in Dvortsevoy's acclaimed debut film "Tulpan", was praised by the Hollywood Reporter for her "intense, committed performance". IMAGES