NAR BAĞI Azerbaijan 2018 Synopsis Gabil returns home to the humble family farmstead, surrounded by an orchard of venerable pomegranate trees; since his sudden departure twelve years ago he was never once in contact. However, the deep emotional scars he left behind cannot be erased from one day to the next. Director’s Biography Ilgar Najaf was born on 2 March 1975 in the Ararat region of the Armenian Republic (USSR). After ethnic conflicts in 1988 (when we has 13), he and his family wereforcibly expelled from Armenia and became refugees. In 1997 he graduated the Azerbaijan State University of Arts, film directors’ faculty. In 2004 he established the film…

By Bijan Tehrani on 05/04/2018 Feature Story Burbank, CA – May 3rd, 2018: Tonight at the closing ceremony of 2018  SEEfest, (South East European Film Festival LA.), POMEGRANATE ORCHARD, from Azerbaijan, directed by Ilgar Najaf, won GoE Bridging The Borders Award, presented by Cinema Without Borders and sponsored by GoEnergistics. Nominees for the Bridging The Borders Award were: HAWAII, COMIC SANS, ENEMIES, GOGITA’S NEW LIFE, THE GREY WAR, MEN DON’T CRY, THE MARRIAGE, THE MINER, POMEGRANATE ORCHARD, SECRET INGREDIENT and UNWANTED. Susan Morgan Cooper & Bijan Tehrani presenting GoE Bridging the Borders Award POMEGRANATE ORCHARD Azerbaijan, 2017, 90’ Director/Producer: Ilgar Najaf Producer: Mushfiq Hatamov Main Cast: Gurban Ismayilov, Samimi Farhad, Ilaha Hasanova Even with the help of his daughter-in-law and grandson, Shamil is too old to take…

Azərbaycan24 ” Pomegranate Orchard ” feature film was awarded the Grand Prix of the 12th Lublin Film Festival in Poland. Report informs that film was produced jointly by “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio and “Buta film” film company at the order of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The film is directed by Ilgar Najaf, script writers Asif Rustamov, Ilgar Najaf, Roelof Jan Minneboo, producer Ayhan Salar, animation director Rafiq Nasirov, composer Firudin Allahverdi, executive producer Akif Aliyev, producers Mushfig Hatamov and Ilgar Najaf. Starring are Gurban Ismayilov, Anar Hasanov, Samimi Farhadov and Hasan Agayev.   Source: https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/film-pomegranate-orchard-receives-international-prize-in-poland/

Efter tolv år återvänder plötsligt den stoiska sonen till sin kärleksfulla familj i Azerbajdjans täta Oscarbidrag inspirerat av Anton Tjechovs “Körsbärsträdgården”. Shamil har blivit för svag för att behålla familjens granatäppelträdgård som länge varit hans stolthet och glädje. Spekulanterna är många men den åldrande mannen vägrar att sälja. Shamil delar huset med svärdottern Sara och det unga barnbarnet. Efter att hans äldsta son dog i en bilolycka lämnade hans andra son Gabil hemmet utan ett ord. När han oväntat dyker upp igen efter många år, för att ta med sig sin familj till Moskva, blir Shamil misstänksam. Ett starkt och ofrånkomligt familjedrama och ett titthål in i Azerbajdjans innersta väsen.…