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Pomegranate Orchard by Azerbaijani director wins 2nd place at international festival – VIDEO
16 September, 2017 10:58 Baku. 16 September. REPORT.AZ/ The film “Nar bağı” (Pomegranate Orchard), shot by Azerbaijani director Ilgar Najaf, was screened at the international festival. Report informs, screenshots of the movie held in Vlissingen, the Netherlands in “Film by the Sea” festival caused great interest of the audience and took second place in the festival. At present, film screening continues as part of the festival. The Azerbaijanis living in the Netherlands can watch the film. Notably, the Pomegranate Orchard is the only Azerbaijani film chosen for Oscar selections to be held in February 2018.
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Ilgar Najaf 11th Asian Pacific Screen Awards
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Ilgar Najaf directed Azerbaijani Movie ‘Pomegranate Orchard’ screened at New Delhi, India
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Buta (Azerbaijan, 2011) reviewed by Vlad Strukov © 2013
Buta is an ornament on carpets, fabrics, embroideries, frescoes. It had been known from times immemorial. It has polysemantic symbolics. It is interpreted as a bud, the Sun, a drop of water, a tongue-flame, an ovary of fruit and many other things. But mainly it symbolizes life. From the opening credits of Buta Scripted and directed by Ilgar Najaf, Buta was chosen as the Azerbaijani entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 85th Academy Awards. Buta is a nickname of the film’s protagonist, a seven-year old boy, who lives in a remote village in Azerbaijani highlands. Disconnected from the modern world, he and other villagers display a…
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The Pomegranate Orchard reviewed by Robyn Jensen
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…
