Patrick Frater October 19, 2017 1:58AM PDT The Asia Pacific Screen Awards are to honor the late Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami with a special prize. It has commended Kiarostami’s final feature “24 Frames” and will give him posthumous admission to the APSA Academy. “’24 Frames’ is an exquisite reverie on scenes from nature. Through still, but precise frames, and aided by subtle staging or effects, he captures the haunting, haiku-like poetry of nature, its beauty, amorousness and brutality. The play with the double meaning of ‘frame’ reflects his profound mediation on the cinematic form,” said Kim Hong-joon, hair of the APSA international nominations council. Director of “Certified Copy,” “Taste of Cherry,”…

23 August 2018 [15:23] ByAzernews   By Laman Ismayilova Azerbaijani films will be screened at the 14th Kazan International Muslim Film Festival. The film ” Tardiness” by director Tahir Tahirovich was selected for the short documentary category, Report.az informed. Another national film “Pomegranate Orchard”  by Ilgar Najaf ill be screened as part of out-of-competition program. “Pomegranate Orchard” features a story about an old man, who lives along with his grandson and daughter-in-law in the decrepit house amidst of the huge pomegranate garden. Sudden comeback of his wayward son has changed a gentle rhythm of their peaceful existence. Forgotten bitter memories have come back and even more, new challenges are in…

    Script Asif Rustamov, Ilgar Najaf, Roelof Yan Minneboo Camera Ayhan Salar Design Rafig Nasirov Music Firuddin Allahverdi Producer Mushfug Hatamov, Ilgar Najaf Cast Gurban Ismayilov, Ilaha Hasanova, Samimi Farhad, Hasan Agayev, Ravshan Karimdukht Production Azerbaijanfilm, Buta Film Country Azerbaijan Length 90 Year 2017 World sales Buta Film, www.butafilm.info AZERBAJDJAN 2017, 90′ THE POMEGRANATE ORCHARD NAR BAĞI Director: ILGAR NAJAF 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. A private drama…

Loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s last play The Cherry Orchard, Ilgar Najaf’s film The Pomegranate Orchard tells the story of a family in rural Azerbaijan, who are forced to sell their orchard. Najaf was born in Armenia in 1975, but in 1988 he and his family fled the country due to ethnic conflict. He went on to study film at the Azerbaijan State University in 1993. Pomegranate Orchard is his second feature film after Buta (2011). The film opens with an interior shot of a window with a pomegranate tree in full bloom just outside. The camera pans back to reveal the young boy Jalal taking an eye examination, as…