Discoveries from Azerbaijan World Cinema

The film tells the funny stories that happen to the villager Bayram.

Although Dursun the taxi driver got modern appearance now, he is still the same as we used to see him. Despite the fact that he'd already sent his matchmakers to his beloved 7 times, her father refused to let his daughter marry to a taxi driver. At the same time, Iftikhar Bey plans to present his famous Mona Liza exhibition in Baku. But the picture is stolen by unknown persons.

Samad is a 14-year-old boy, living in a refugee camp in Imishli. After blacking out in the forest, he finds himself in the midst of the Nagorno-Karabakh War that happened ten years ago.

Short and seperate movie from the quadrilogy.

A wealthy man, who is financially depend on his wife, hits the car to kill himself. Car owners and friends bring the man home. After the man wakes up, he asks them to kill him and even offers money. Describing the gap and difference between rich and poor, the short film surprises everyone with unexpected final.

Azerbaijan Television's "Sabah" Creative Studio has produced a feature film titled "The Boy is Brave, the Girl is Beautiful" on the occasion of the holiday.

Tells the story of the life and multifaceted heritage of Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh , the founder of Azerbaijani drama, a great public figure, who left an indelible mark on the history of Azerbaijani and Middle Eastern literature . The film depicts three periods of the playwright's life - childhood, youth and old age.

Welcome to Shanghai. No, not the Chinese megalopolis full of neon and nouveaux riches, but precisely the opposite: an eponymous slum in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. In the distance, skyscrapers built with oil money tower above the city, but here dilapidated houses are packed along a single railway line. The slum is scheduled for demolition, and now and again a child is killed by one of the freight trains slowly chugging by. When the German director Veit Helmer arrives in Shanghai to make a feature film, feelings quickly run high. The locals are afraid that he wants to make them look ridiculous. The young Azerbaijani filmmaker Leyli Gafarova succeeds however in gaining the inhabitants’ trust and films a choppy, playful portrait of Shanghai in the margins of the feature film production. In the guise of a making-of, she shows intimate fragments of life in the slum, while it’s still standing.

Starring: Fuad Isgandarov.

The center of the psychological drama is the Crazy Samad. However, despite his name being Crazy Samad, he is more honest and intelligent than some people. Since the film is based on a combination of three stories, it tells the story of the misfortunes of three different families: Samad, who is tortured by his brother, Karbalai Eyvaz, who beats his wife because of her stubbornness, and Zuleykha, who is beaten by her husband because of her harsh language. We look at all these events through the eyes of Crazy Samad.

Maryam, an immigrant living in the US returns to her small village in Azerbaijan after discovering that her father is alive and residing in a psychiatric facility. She tries to help recover his mind with her memories but the struggle against the disease turns into a fight with her own conscience.

Azerbaijani mother and daughter fleed Yerevan during the conflict and agree to exchange homes with an Armenian family in Baku. There is one condition: the elderly Armenian woman must stay in the house. The two women, isolated between walls built by blood and hostility, begin to search for a way to live together over time.

Kidnapping a bride goes wrong when two men realize they kidnapped the bride’s twin.

“Urban Motives 4.1” is an anthology film consists of 5 short movies by 5 Azerbaijani directors. The first, by Anar Abbasov, is about a relationship between a man and women who live next door; second, by Ru Hasanov, is about a life of a musician who is different from others with his mentality; third, by Teymur Ismayilov, tells a story of a young worker who has his own dreams; fourth, by Jafar Akhundzade, is about traumas caused by war; and the last one, by Vugar Islamzadeh, is a story about a criminal group and an officer who wants to take revenge.

The film is about the scammers one can meet in the lifetime.

After losing his son in the Karabakh war, Elchin returns to his homeland after the victory and begins repairing the fence of his house so he will not have to see his Armenian neighbor. However, the disappearance of his enemy’s blind son changes Elchin’s plans.

This short film, built around a randomly chosen name and composed of scenes shot within a single room over the course of three hours, features an introspective monologue that was shaped and adapted during the editing process. The narrative aligns closely with the emotional tone and visual rhythm of the piece, particularly in harmony with the non-original music selection, Maggot Brain by Funkadelic.

The story of the suffering of a boy who is put on a sheepskin coat and gradually becomes a man-eater.

Maqsad lives a simple life with his wife Giyamat and son Sohbat, but suddenly things change when his son Maksim from a Russian woman comes to see his father from Russia.

After years of being released from prison, Huseyn calls his wife Gulshad to meet him. Gulshad is hopeful that she will be reunited with the person she loves after many years. Moreover, she is waiting for a logical explanation for some unanswered questions. She wants to find out why Huseyn has not been meeting her, and whether he committed the crime. Huseyn also has his own plan for their meeting. They enter a cave with only one entrance, far from everyone and everything, to confront their past.

Living alone, Jamal is a painter, but no one likes his works, which causes him great depression. He has a self-righteous fiancée named Lala. One day, his friend Adalat comes to Jamal's house in the middle of the night drunk with a bar girl, Zara. Adalat asks Jamal to stay at her house for one night. However, when morning comes, Adalat does not come after the girl. When Zara wakes up, she thinks that Jamal brought her home. Thus, sublime feelings arise between people from different worlds.

After working in Moscow for a long time, Bakhtiyar came to Baku and married a girl named Mansum. One day, Bakhtiyar's ex-girlfriend Nadya, who lives in Moscow, came to Baku, appeared on Khoshgadam program "I'm Looking for You" and began looking for Bakhtiyar. Bakhtiyar's father-in-law and 8 brothers-in-law, as well as his 9th brother-in-law Aynur, who had just been released from prison, began to search for Bakhtiyar, threatening him with death. Bakhtiyar, who joined Nadya and fled, has nowhere to hide in Baku.

After losing his son in the Karabakh war, Elchin returns to his homeland after the victory and begins repairing the fence of his house so he will not have to see his Armenian neighbor. However, the disappearance of his enemy’s blind son changes Elchin’s plans.

The film is based on an ordinary everyday story: Mayilla and Gandab have been engaged for a year. When Gandab returns from studying in Baku, he demands his parents return his engagement ring. As the events unfold, it turns out that Gandab met a young man named Fagan in Baku and they fall in love. Fagan also comes to the village after his lover, and from then on, things get even more complicated...

The path of Shah Ismail from childhood to kingship! The story is built around the young Ismail, who is hidden under the protection of Karkiya Mirza after his father and brothers are killed, focusing on his struggle for survival and the subtle games he plays with the spies of the Aq Qoyunlu sultan who are hunting him down. Throughout the film, it is shown how young Ismail survives this life-and-death ordeal, grows stronger, and prepares himself for his future revenge.

Zaur and Tahmina didn’t meet each other at the right time. Tahmina is married, and Zaur's family is categorically against their son being with a married woman. Despite all the objections, they love each other madly. Just as everything has an end, this love also has an end, but such an end would not have even occurred to Zaur...

Azerbaijanian family has found Armenian boy in the forest and raised him. But years after he betrays his country during the war.

The film is dedicated to all actors who have failed in their personal lives.

Hozu is coming from a remote village to work with his cousin in Baku.

A short film.

Gafar wants to celebrate the anniversary of the death of Feyzulla, a man who has been dead for a year, and tries to bring the relatives together again...

A new movie from CVN team

A family of four lives in a remote village: a man, a woman, a teenage girl and a little boy. One day, an unexpected guest, a miserable-looking, middle-aged man comes to the family. Everything changes with his arrival. It turns out that the unexpected guest, the woman, is Mehman, her first husband, who has been in Armenian captivity for a long time. An ex-husband wants his wife and house back. The woman's current husband, Abdul, does not want to give up...

Afsana is a rich woman, jealous of her husband Qiyas. She hires two people to spy on her husband. That’s when all kinds of tragicomic events happen to them.

A different courier is forced to replace a family member who looks similar to him at the house where he delivers orders.

Returning home after 6 years in prison, Rasul realizes that nothing will ever be the same. His biggest wish is to see Gunel again, whom he left alone years ago. If such a thing is possible...

After the death of their father, two brothers find themselves in conflict over what kind of headstone to place on his grave. What begins as a disagreement over a simple decision gradually evolves into a deeper, emotional confrontation that forces them to confront their differences, their past, and their shared grief

The film tells about the adventure of three patients who escaped from the dispensary and became mutants due to the influence of drugs.

The film is about a young woman nursing her father, when things don't go to plan.

It all starts with a premonitory dream. A national paper reporter for a southern region of Azerbaijan, Karim lives his boring daily life. But something, a memory, is deeply bothering him. The arrival of a new editor-in-chief increases Karim’s worries, he has to go to Baku to meet him.

Gafar wants to celebrate the anniversary of the death of Feyzulla, a man who has been dead for a year, and tries to bring the relatives together again...

The path of Shah Ismail from childhood to kingship! The story is built around the young Ismail, who is hidden under the protection of Karkiya Mirza after his father and brothers are killed, focusing on his struggle for survival and the subtle games he plays with the spies of the Aq Qoyunlu sultan who are hunting him down. Throughout the film, it is shown how young Ismail survives this life-and-death ordeal, grows stronger, and prepares himself for his future revenge.

The film tells about the collision of cars outside Baku on New Year's Eve. During the heated argument between drivers and passengers who are blaming each other, the heroes are about to completely forget that there are only a few minutes left until New Year, and they have to make an urgent decision about how to spend it...

Returning home after 6 years in prison, Rasul realizes that nothing will ever be the same. His biggest wish is to see Gunel again, whom he left alone years ago. If such a thing is possible...

An intimate documentary about a trans woman's isolation and decision to leave her home country of Azerbaijan in pursuit of a safer life. Using the metaphor of a rabbit, that comes from her nickname "bunny," she presents her relationship with her family, country, music, and protest, intercut with home videos.

In this modern film, Elias, tired of his life, tries to kill himself, but wakes up in a house in Cannes where he meets Arthur, a man hiding from the mafia. Despite having nothing in common and not speaking the same language, they become friends and navigate their contrasting lifestyles together.

Ali has not seen his father for 15 years. He rushes to his remote village with his family to say goodbye to his dying father. The hero, who had little contact with his father even as a child, is unable to say goodbye, but he does make it to the funeral. The hero, who suffers psychological shock from his father's death, confesses, undergoes catharsis, and becomes spiritually purified.

Two young filmmakers spend time together, talking and searching for an idea to make a film. As their conversation unfolds, imagined stories quietly appear and disappear, blurring the line between thought and reality.

Two young men who are looking for work because of their debts, they decide to become a nanny and go to the house of a wealthy person. But the disappearance of the child, the child's father finding out and old debts bring them to unexpected days.

Two days before his sister’s wedding, Shoshu takes his son-in-law and comes to the capital for a pre-wedding vacation together with the relatives. After drinking and partying all night, they wake up in one of the hotels in the capital the next morning with no memory of the previous night. That’s when everyone starts to get into comical situations.

Shirin unwittingly becomes entangled in a mafia heist when she comes across a stolen medallion, prompting her and her friends - relatives Şəmi, Şöşü, Fəlakət and herself - to fall into the clutches of mob boss Hacı. As they struggle to free themselves, rival gangster Topal steps in, further complicating their desperate bid for survival.

The story of a DJ who volunteers to go to the front during the Second Karabakh War.

Samir has to pay his brother's debt by playing poker with the man he owes money to.

The events in the film take place in a village where ghosts often appear. The story between a Turkish journalist who comes from Turkey to film this ghost and his Azerbaijani companions develops in an unexpected way.

The film is about war in Garabagh and when we look at wounded solider we see our son, brother or father.

The documentary is about the life and future goals of prisoners in prison for children.