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Kuklalar (2010)
Character: N/A
This half biographic movie is about 6 young teenager boys' working as a muppet in the Baku Boulevard and early 90's diplomatic situation in Baku.
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Torn (2014)
Character: A Man
Two worlds, two stories: a man and a boy. The kid goes down to the yard to make friends with the neighborhood children. A man has a date on the roof.
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Çılpaq (2023)
Character: N/A
The hero, who wants to volunteer to help with his neighbor's funeral, is unexpectedly confronted with the most shocking truth of his life - the deceased is his close relative. During the days he spends in cemeteries, the hero meets various people, witnesses their painful and touching stories. These acquaintances change his worldview, but at the same time they drag him into an increasingly hopeless situation.
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Açar (2022)
Character: N/A
Umid, the internally displaced person (IDP) due to War, loses the set of keys belonging to his house which is currently under occupation. The keys represent the last hope to come back to his house, so Umid still hopes he will be back one day but the accident bears a strong symbolic meaning to him. He interprets it as losing the last hope.
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40-cı paraleldə (2016)
Character: Rasim (“Qara bağ” segmentı)
The anthology consists of 4 short feature films: "Postscriptum", "His Father", "The Gift" and "The Black Garden".
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Manqurt (2003)
Character: juanjuan
The story of the suffering of a boy who is put on a sheepskin coat and gradually becomes a man-eater.
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Bakı gecələri (2015)
Character: skripkaçı (“Skripkaçı” segmentı)
Anthology consists of 5 short films: "Underground Passage", "Clouds", "Path of Light", "Five Minutes", "The Violinist".
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Tağıyev: Çar (2025)
Character: N/A
In the autumn of 1888, Baku is preparing for the visit of His Majesty Alexander III. Millionaire and member of the Baku City Duma, Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, is fighting for influence and status in society. The city mayor, Orlovsky, taking advantage of his position, seeks to seize the oil field of Teymurbekov, who has committed suicide. Meanwhile, Ismail, the eldest son of Haji, meets General’s daughter, Nurjahan Arablinskaya, and intends to marry her.
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Sahə (2010)
Character: N/A
Baku, Azerbaijan. A famous photographer postpones his wedding once again due to an important job offer. During the inevitable quarrel with his fiancée, they have a car accident.
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Oriondan Sevgilərlə (2025)
Character: N/A
The story is about a shepherd named Akif who lost his young daughter Bahar 15 years ago. One day, while spending time with her near a cliff he believes she was abducted bv extraterrestrials. However, when he speaks about it, the villagers mock him, and even his wife refuses to believe him. After this incident, Akif dedicates his life to sciences like astronomy and physics. For years, he sends signals into the sky, trying to establish contact with aliens in the hope of bringing back his beloved daughter. Fifteen years later, just as he has completely lost hope, an unexpected visitor arrives at his home.
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Arzuların ardınca… (2015)
Character: N/A
Kamil, who lost his father in childhood, lives alone. Kamil works in his own small photo studio, and is abandoned by his girlfriend after he falls ill. Kamil, who has lost hope in everything, meets Arzu, who is the beginning of a new life.
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Qala (2008)
Character: N/A
A drama about a film crew making a movie in an isolated mountain town famous for its ancient fortress, and what happens when the town is threatened by a modern-day foreign invasion.
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Qaragöz (2018)
Character: N/A
Qara is a famous actor, genius at his work, a good person, but he is very frugal, extremely tight-lipped. Due to this nature, he is alone in life. But one day, his son, whom he never knew he had, comes to him and his life changes. Qara starts to like Nigar, his sidekick on stage. Of course, since everything comes down to money, he wants to hide this desire. While Qara is struggling to survive in this expensive world, one day he is faced with a choice between money and life.
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Три девушки (2007)
Character: N/A
The plot of the film is based on three love stories. The events take place in Moscow, Baku and Africa, but most of them are related to the Azerbaijani capital. The film, shot in the comedy genre, takes place during the Great Patriotic War, when the Germans left the occupied territories.
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Tağıyev: Məktəb (2026)
Character: Musa Naghiyev
August 1922. Jerry Thompson, filled with respect, prepares to hear Haji’s story. May 1901. Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev works on opening the first school for Muslim girls in Baku, with support from his wife Sona. Cleric Akhund Abu Ziyad opposes the idea, sparking public debate. Reformers — Hasan bey Zardabi, Alimardan bey Topchibashev, Ahmed bey Agaev, and progressive clergy led by Mirza Abuturab — support education. The conflict escalates to attacks on teachers. Haji changes strategy and sends a representative abroad. He returns with approvals from major Islamic centers, confirming girls’ right to education. Victory is Haji’s. In October 1901, the school opens.
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Əsirlikdə 8 gün (2025)
Character: N/A
The feature film reflects the terrible days of the tragedy and the suffering experienced through the example of Durdana Aghayeva and her brother Elshad Aghayev, who witnessed the Khojaly genocide and were subjected to severe torture for 8 days in Armenian captivity.
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Olimpia (2021)
Character: Jafar
The film tells the heartwarming tale of Ilgar Suleymanov, a former Olympic medalist who has settled into a quiet life in his hometown. Despite having close friends and a love for fishing, Ilgar is haunted by his loneliness and lack of direction. However, when an unexpected visitor arrives at his doorstep, Ilgar's life takes an exciting and unexpected turn, leading him on a journey that will take him from Azerbaijan to the distant shores of Cuba. This poignant and uplifting film explores the universal themes of friendship, love, and the search for meaning in a touching and unforgettable way.
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Dərs (2016)
Character: N/A
The film tells about school life, the mutual relations of teenage schoolmates, views on friendship and life, and the formation of these views.
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Zəhər Tuluğu (2021)
Character: N/A
Adil continues his journey in cinema, with two timelines depicting different stages of his life. In the present, he struggles to save Leyla’s unborn child from being aborted, while the second timeline explores a key event from his past.
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Suğra və oğulları (2021)
Character: N/A
1945. The women do the work in a remote village while the men are fighting the Nazis. A small group of deserters is hiding in the mountains and little Bahtiyar acts as the liaison between the men and the village.
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Bakı, Mən Səni Sevirəm (2015)
Character: Faig (segment "Lotereya bileti")
The film anthology includes 10 short films: "Asia", "Meeting", "Artist", "Yard", "Bahram Gur", "Lottery Ticket", "Caspian Atlantis", "About love", "Aysel" and "Coincidence". Each screenplay in the project reflects different moments in the life of Baku. Short films bring to life relationships between people, their love and longing, happy and sad moments. The main hero uniting these people, relations and different moments of life is the city of Baku.
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Şanxay, Bakı (2016)
Character: Rasim
Samir is an amateur filmmaker. Along with his despotic father and older sister Roza he resides in “Shanghai”, a slum located in close proximity to downtown Baku, the capital of the oil rich Republic of Azerbaijan. By sheer accident, Samir captures a video of Roza getting intimate with her boyfriend.
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Əlvida, Şmidt! (2019)
Character: Rasim
“Goodbye Schmidt!”. A movie, which deeply hints, even though it doesn’t make to think about…* Emil Schmidt belongs to the German ethnicity and wishes to immigrate to Germany. He dreams to realize his goal by applying to the German Embassy with official requests every month, but at the very beginning, nothing is that simple, as it seems to be to him. He is being accepted, but only to the offices. He is being heard, but nobody listens to him. People feel sorry for him, but they don't help…. The remarkable hero story of this picture will share with us an autumn sorrow and a summer joy and will allow us to live through his fate and to keep silent about the meaning of life. What could be higher than human values, love and freedom? What could be closer to us than the Motherland? What could be more important for a person whose life can end at any moment?
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Balıqçı qızı (2020)
Character: Salim
In a tiny Azerbaijani fishing village young Sarah's father disappears at sea. Misfortunes abound until the superstitious inhabitants demand a funeral. Rebellious Sarah undertakes one last, and deadly, attempt to find her father.
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Xeyirlə Şərin Rəqsi (2016)
Character: Tufan
Before his death, the jeweler wrote a will in which he mentioned the famous diamond "Abbas Shah." But when the heirs discovered his personal safe, the diamond was not there. Without hesitation, they turned for help to the detective Drongo, who, as everyone knows, is able to unravel the most mysterious thing. The detective immediately established a circle of suspects and began to screen out those who had an iron alibi. But suddenly his list began to decline for a completely different reason - someone began to kill the suspects one by one...
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Üçüncü Günün Adamı (2017)
Character: N/A
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.
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Mən burdayam, İlahi! (2023)
Character: Teymur Osmanov
A veteran wounded in the war, wakes up from a three-month coma and learns that his mother has passed away and that his daughter has been placed in a boarding school. Later, she tries to put her life in order so that she can have her child. The film, which tells about his struggle to get his daughter back, focuses more on the scars of war on human psychology and the struggle of people who have left the war to live than on the heavy battle scenes.
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Həsrət (2020)
Character: man playing backgammon #1
The film is dedicated to people who lost their homes as a result of the war and live with longing for their homeland. Inspired by real events.
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Ayaqqabı əməliyyatı (2016)
Character: Amrulla
Shoemaker Gadir is known among the people for his stubbornness. His friend's son, businessman Amrulla, convinces all the shops in the area except Gadir's shoe shop to sell. Realizing that he will not be able to convince Tars Gadir, he plays a trick on him. One day, he offers him a job and gives him money as an advance. Gadir, who wants to send his daughter to a festival in Baku and needs money, has to accept Amrulla's offer and pawns his shop. As a result, the job is not done and Gadir loses his shop.
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Ölüm Növbəsi (2009)
Character: N/A
There are issues of spirituality, morality, love and loyalty in the center of the dramatic story that took place in one of the villages around Baku.
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Dalan (2019)
Character: Ramiz
"Dalan" is a film that tells about dead-end life situations that anyone can get into. In the film, several intertwined stories are built around the main plot line - the betrayal of a young wife to her despotic husband.
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Son payız (2022)
Character: N/A
The film "Last Autumn", written and directed by Rustam Babazadeh, is a comedy genre with elements of grotesque and satire.
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Mövsümün Sonu (2019)
Character: Samir
A small family in Azerbaijan is on the brink of running its course. Son Machmud feverishly seeks a home of his own; mother Fidan wants her life back after years of service to the family; father Samir just wants to be left alone. Three free spirits orbiting each other, ignoring the annoyances as much as possible. However, a dramatic incident during a trip to the beach painfully highlights the hairline fractures in their existence.
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Tərsinə Kölgələr (2025)
Character: Huseyn
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.
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Ali and Nino (2016)
Character: Ivan
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
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Tağıyev: Neft (2024)
Character: N/A
August 1922. An American journalist, Jerry Thompson, travels to the Soviet Union and arrives in Azerbaijan. He visits the settlement of Mardakan in Baku. There, he meets an elderly man at a villa. Thompson can hardly believe what he hears. Standing before him is Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, a once-great oil producer, millionaire, and philanthropist who lost all his wealth after the establishment of Soviet rule. Haji recounts his life story to the guest, a journey that saw him rise from a humble mason to an influential oil industrialist.
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Tabutçunun yelləncəyi (2012)
Character: Musa
Azerbaijan. Yagub has nothing left but beats his disabled son Musa until a shattering message brings about a sudden turn.
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Apatiya 2 (2025)
Character: Actor
The main character of the film, Akif, escapes from an orphanage to find his mother. On this painful journey, with an uncertain ending, the protagonist faces numerous challenges. The swift intervention of a prosecutor’s office employee raises many questions for the audience about the essence of life. Apathy-2 delivers a powerful "slap" to the mentality of bringing children into this world thoughtlessly.
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Əzizim Fellini (2010)
Character: Rasim
The film is based on the events of Rasim (Rasim Jafarov), a literature teacher who came to Baku from the village to become a movie director. There he meets Leyla, a beautiful woman who he falls in love with. She calls him Fellini in honor of Italian film director Federico Fellini.
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Ararat (2023)
Character: Hasan
Zeynep has caused a traffic accident in Berlin. She escapes to her parents’ home in Turkey where her self-destructive and sexually assertive behaviour infuriates more than just her family. Looming above them like a portent is the dormant volcano Ararat.
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"Ağ-qara" gecələr (2013)
Character: N/A
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.
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Yalançılar (2008)
Character: Tahir
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.
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Teatral həyat (2009)
Character: aktyor
Years after the collapse of the Soviet Union… The hero of the film is an actor of the provincial theater. The chaotic mood of the time he lived in directly affected his character and mental state. He suffers from depression. The environment, loneliness oppress him, he is in a state of psychological shock. He also loves his counterpart in the theater, Leyla. However, he cannot express his feelings. There comes a moment when he says “it is necessary to end everything” and leaves.
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Пропавший без вести (2010)
Character: Давид
In a Kafkaesque story about identity and free will, a well-to-do man finds himself suddenly struggling for his place in society in the face of authoritarian corporate and state interference. (Russian with English subtitles).
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