
Mehriban Zaki
2021Küçələrə Su Səpmişəm
Nijat Feyzullayev
Fuad Poladov, Rasim Balayev
A man goes to prison for years for a crime his cousin committed. After his release he moves to his native village and lives a simple life. But when his cousin comes to visit, his old thoughts of revenge return.
There, Where the Rivers Merge
Məkanın Melodiyası
Huseyn Mehdiyev
Aladdin Abbasov, Ayan Mirgasimova
An old violinist thinks over his past life on the eve of the 80th birthday. His reflections result in looking for once composed but then forgotten melody. A chance meeting with dancer Rena takes him away to his lost love. He realizes that a person who has betrayed himself is doomed to tragic finale.
Melody of Space
Down the River
Asif Rustamov
Namig Aghayev, Mehriban Zaki
Young Ruslan rows for a team coached by his father Ali, who places many demands upon his son and is continually dissatisfied by his performance. But when tragedy strikes, his father is overcome with emotions he doesn’t know how to deal with. Debut director Asif Rustamov treats the heavy topic with remarkable subtlety and discretion, emphasizing the characters’ carefully elaborated psychology.
Down the River
Otel Otağı
Rasim Ojagov
Fakhraddin Manafov, Rasim Balayev
В центре фильма - герой-интеллигент, ученый-тюрколог, человек, сохранивший личное достоинство в самые сложные времена. Верность своим убеждениям и нравственным принципам он оплачивает бесконечными служебными неприятностями. Действие происходит в Азербайджане и Турции в 1990-е годы и 1930-1940-е.
Hotel Room
Əlvida, Cənub Şəhəri
Oleg Safaraliyev
Timur Badalbeyli, Mehriban Zaki
The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment block from war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh. Fariz's relations with his new neighbors are strained by his accusations that it was people like them who failed to support the Azeris in their conflict with ethnic Armenians. The only one who stands up to him is Alik, who acts as peacemaker between him and the older inhabitants of the building. Alik has no reservations about brandishing his gun in order to keep the peace. One day, the apartment managers want to evict a number of musicians who have been squatting in the basement. Alik gets involved, but soon discovers the situation is more complicated that he first believed.
Good Bye, Southern City
İçəri Şəhər
Ilgar Safat
Tahmina Rafaella, Firdovsi Atakishiyev
"At some point," Rafael tells Arzu, "people walk together ... and then their ways part ... each destined to follow the labyrinth of their own inner city ..." Arzu, a young girl growing up in contemporary Azerbaijan, falls in love with Rafael, her piano teacher's son, a veteran of the Karabakh War. Twice her age and unable to escape from the ravages of war, Rafael is forced to live on the edge of a society that sees him as a 'cripple.' Arzu, desperate to escape from the same repressive society which confines women to a strict, narrow path, chooses Rafael over her family and friends - but threatened by Arzu's mother, and guided by the wisdom born out of his own brokenness, Rafael makes the supreme sacrifice of love ...
Inner City
Ailə
Rustam Ibragimbekov, Ramiz Hasanoghlu
Hasanagha Turabov, Sayavush Karimi
January 1990, Baku. The Soviet Union hasn't collapsed yet. Around 300 thousand Azeri have been forsed out from their homes in Armenia and Daghlig Garabagh. Rallies of protest, political meetings spring up in Baku. The old patriarch, Ismail gathers under his roof distant relatives, people of different nationalities, beliefs, and ideas. The old man is tortured by everything happening around him: unrest in the city as well as discord and discarder in his own overpopulated apartment. All his efforts to preserve the family are in vain. People want to live separately. Former friends become bitter enemies because of the senseless aggression.
The Family
Üçüncü Günün Adamı
Babak Shirinsifat
Nijat Habibov, Kamran Aghabalayev
The film tells the story of a man, who was in prison when the invaders occupied his native land. When he gets out from prison, he tries to find ways to visit his parents’ graves, which are located on the occupied lands now.
A Man of the Third Day
"Ağ-qara" gecələr
Ayaz Salayev
Agil Guliyev, Nodar Shashigoglu
A classic and at the same time unrealistic and phantasmagoric love story with betrayal and hatred. A woman's ruthless hatred of her husband suddenly starts to surface in the programs of the TV channel she has co-founded with her husband.
Black-and-White Nights
Yalançılar (Liars)
Mehriban Zaki, Rasim Jafar
A young woman with a broken family is looking for happiness. She wants to remarry to get rid of loneliness, so she decides to use the Internet. The film also reflects the impact of the current transition period, economic and political changes on the intellectual families of Baku. But more women and their psychology came to the fore. The psychological crises of a modern woman, family relationships are reflected in the film.
Yalançılar (Liars)