Azerbaijani

IN BETWEEN DYING is the love story of Davud, a young man trying to find his ‘real’ family, who completes his life cycle in a single day. When he does find Love, it‘s in the place he has always lived. But it is too late.Read More »

In a tiny Azerbaijani fishing village young Sarah’s father disappears at sea. Misfortunes abound until the superstitious inhabitants demand a funeral. Rebellious Sarah undertakes one last, and deadly, attempt to find her father.Read More »

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In a remote village in Azerbaijan, a woman runs her one-person household. She feeds her animals, tends the garden, cleans the house and does the laundry by hand. She’s nearly always alone as the days slip by. Then, after an eight-year absence, her adult son Hilal arrives back at his childhood home.

At first, the mother and her son fall back into the old familiar patterns of their relationship. But then the conversations start to flow, as well as the questions. What made Hilal want to go to the city? Why did he make certain choices when he was a student? How does he see his life? As a troubled filmmaker, will he ever manage to finish anything?Read More »

The story follows a soldier who returns from war and finds everyone in his village has rotted away due to a mysterious illness. The only survivor, his sister, is also slowly rotting, with only a dog to keep her company.Read More »

Musa, a law student seeks out Davud, a man imprisoned for kidnapping four women. He soon discovers that all of his victims have no wish to press charges. On the contrary, they have the feeling of a new truth in themselves. Musa’s encounter with the purported criminal becomes a journey into someone else’s inner world. Are the questions he asks the correct ones? Is the law a genuine form of justice? What is the meaning of humans imposing punishment on others? Is Musa being enlightened by a superior man, or is he being lured into a world of illusion?Read More »

The only Azeri feature-length animated film made during the Soviet Union. A mix of traditional and cutout animation. An animated opera.Read More »

In search of housing, a student finds an ad about renting an apartment for a very reasonable fee – and immediately agrees to a woman who recently buried her son to comply with all her conditions. The young man moves into the apartment and gradually becomes a witness of incomprehensible mystical phenomena.Read More »

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When a father is unexpectedly released from prison after serving ten years for killing his wife, his son wants to find out why he did it.Read More »

Gabil returns home to the humble family farmstead, surrounded by an orchard of venerable pomegranate trees; since his sudden departure twelve years ago he was never once in contact. However, the deep emotional scars he left behind cannot be erased from one day to the next.Read More »