Residents are slowly leaving the village due to thirst. Only one family, aunt Nakhish and man Rahim, endured a thousand hardships to guard the grave of Allahverdi, their only child who died in the Karabakh war.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s the Armenian minority in Nagorono-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan, one of the former Soviet republics. Overnight these former neighbors became enemies, and simple village folk were suddenly made hostages in a complex power game. One of the...
The film is about the inner suffering and conflictions of Yavar, father of a soldier, who can't give the news of his son's death in the war to his heart-sick wife.
The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son has died in battle.
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.
After the novelette of the same name of M.Ibrahimbeyov. Tahir is twelwe. His parents are seperating and he is troubled by incident which impels his guestion the nature of relations between men and women.
A modern Azerbaijani woman’s life is non stop all day as she juggles traditional and secular roles, her life subsumed by service for others while rarely getting the respect she deserves. Throughout the film we see how things are changing in progressive Azerbaijan, and how some things don’t...
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.
The film tells the story of a former colonel who ends up in a nursing home, where he loses his money. The events that befall the colonel, who is suspicious of his own friends, become the subject of laughter.
Parvaz Mustavi, a South Azerbaijani, decides to start organizing weddings in Baku. When he brings an expensive, rare car inherited from his father from Iran to Baku for rent, it is stolen halfway through the journey. After losing the car and facing bankruptcy, Parvaz and his partner Yaver meet the...
