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 the...
One man and an apartment, about which we know nothing. This is the premise of a conceptual documentary based on the concept of providing a deliberately limited amount of information to the viewer. We look into the intimate space behind the closed front door, where the most ordinary activities are carried out: cooking lunch, preparing tea, eating lunch, starting a fire in the fi...
裏海旁,孤獨男人在垃圾堆裡發現被丟棄的模特兒人偶,清洗後想把她當成女友,似乎也得幫自己打扮一番。雖然沒有神氣活現的奇蹟,卻招來意外的浪漫。漢米爾與亞塞拜然學生合拍之作。
The latest film from TIFF Best Artistic Contribution Award winner (for Crane Lantern) depicts the scars that war leaves on humans, set in the forests of Azerbaijan, with phenomenally beautiful images.
After many years the Wanderer returns to his land to hear the Voice again which can be heard only there.
"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 l...