Dinara Asanova remains as a significant female filmmaker from the late Soviet Union. Despite her early death at age 42, she created several films that contributed to shaping late Soviet Cinema. She was rewarded with the USSR State Prize for her work on "Tough Kids" and was named Merited Artist of The Russian Federation in 1980, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Asanova's film "Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique..." was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. Three documentaries were made on her after her passing, the first being "I Love You All Very Much" (1987), the second being "Dinara" (1988) and the third being "Dinara Asanova" (2003).