Azerbaijani filmmaker's work invited to Int'l festival

The “Swing of the Undertaker”, the movie by Azerbaijani filmmaker Elmar Imanov will attend the international “Silence, on court!” festival in France.

The half-hour tape by the Azerbaijani director, who lives in Germany, has already gained success in the international arena including winning the most prestigious youth award - Student Academy Award of the American Academy.

Swing of the Undertaker, is a psychological drama about a father and son, played on the background of the semi-desert landscape of the Azerbaijan province.
The international jury of festival appreciates most of the films that bring forth the idea of a person’s moral transformation, or their spiritual development. On the program of the forthcoming festival are films of all genres and styles, including feature films and animated cartoons.

It gives its most enthusiastic support to cinema emerging from trouble-spots where external forces interfere in the lives of people, often trampling basic norms of human morals. There is another prominent trend, an abundance of films from Western Europe. This means that the younger generation of European filmmakers shares the ideas and values asserted by the Festival. This is one of the most difficult, but, yet, feasible tasks of art in the contemporary world.

The studio The Film Festival sees its mission in reviving independent cinema in Europe, inspiring discoveries in cinema language and driving attention to independent cinema by promoting short films created by cinema school students and non-professionals.

The Festival provides an opportunity for young directors not only to learn the secrets of world cinema and film production, but also to participate in the formation of the European cinema.


/AzerTAc/