Azerbaijani movies screened in Korea
By Laman Ismayilova
Azerbaijani movies were screened at an international film festival held in the Republic of Korea.
The movies "Buta" and "Girov" (Hostage) were shown at Seoul History Museum through partnership with Azerbaijan`s Embassy in the Republic of Korea, Azertac reported.
"Buta" dram by Ilgar Najaf was selected as the Azerbaijani entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. In 2011 it won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Children's Feature Film.
The films tell a story of Gyoncha, a young woman living in a small Azerbaijani village. She finishes her carpet and falls in love for the first time.
The film Hostage by Eldar Guliev is set in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the Armenian minority in the Nagorno-Karabakh region attempted to break away from Azerbaijan.
Overnight these former neighbors became enemies, and simple village folk was suddenly made hostage in a complex power game. One of the Azerbaijani villages right on the border is home to the family of the peasant farmer Kerim, who has just been captured by the Armenians. The village council decides to take an Armenian in order to arrange a hostage exchange. They imprison the wounded man in the barn next to Kerim's house, where his wife and three children desperately await the husband's return. The captive from the other side of the border finds himself in exactly the same situation - he, too, has three children, he has never done anything to harm anyone and, like Kerim, he just wants to go back home. But life in Karabakh is far more complex now. Blood calls for blood.
The international film festival in Korea screens a wide range of movies celebrating diversity and multiculturalism through the end of the year.
From July 25-August 31, the festival will screen movies that have been shot on 35-millimeter film, koreaherald.com reports. From September 16- October 14, the festival will feature seven documentaries from around the world.
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