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For thirty years now, a dilapidated house has been providing essential asylum to war refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh. Three generations, including the children and grandchildren of people made to leave their homes, struggle to scratch an existence on the outskirts of Baku. They are faced with common problems: loss of home, outrooting, sadness and illnesses.
Eleven years after her grandfather's passing, director Leylakhanim Ganbarli starts an emotional journey. She has never had the courage to say “farewell” to her late grandfather until now. Filled with valuable memories of their time together, she travels from Baku to Oglangala, her childhood village in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan’s autonomous republic situated between Armenia and Iran. As Leylakhanim reflects on her grandfather and awakens memories of him, her grandmother steps in to support her. Thus, the film “My Grandfather's House” explores not only the director's reminiscences but also marks a new stage in the relationship between grandmother and granddaughter.
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.
The main theme of the series is family values - traditions passed down from generation to generation. These are the feelings that ensure the strength of the family, the joys and sorrows, prosperity, success, problems and difficulties that people experience within the family.
The film tells the story of the life of the Azerbaijani saint Seyid Yahya, who lived in the 14th century.
It tells the story of a criminal conflict, with women primarily depicted as shadows of the male characters.
The film made by two brothers, one a screenwriter and the other a director, was a failure. On the very day of the premiere, they were severely beaten by their sponsors, who had run out of money, and thrown out into the street at midnight. Wandering the streets of the city, the brothers walked towards their homes, passing by a nightclub. Suddenly, as if by fate, a girl who was beaten like them came out of the nightclub. They saw this girl as a muse for their next activities and brought her home. Early in the morning, they began to write and create a new script with the girl, as if they were opening a new page in their lives. The point is that they themselves become the heroes of the events that take place in the script, which they named "OL".
The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature what occurred aboard the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb) and inside the exploding bomb.
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.