Azerbaijani film named best in India [PHOTO]
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By Laman Ismayilova
Azerbaijani film "The Steppe Man" awarded the prize "Best fiction film" at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival.
The awarding ceremony will take place on April 29 at Indira Cinema in Calcutta (India), Trend Life reported.
Calcutta International Cult Film Festival (CICFF) aims to develop a film culture that inspires and brings together cross-cultural innovations that enrich people’s lives with entertainment: and services that inform, educate and entertain.
The event's goals are to introduce more people to art-house cinema.
The film, directed by Shamil Aliyev is about a young steppe man who lives in remoteness from the city, closely tied to nature. His father teaches him the subtleties of life in the steppe. Soon after his father's death the young man meets a girl from a city.Their meeting becomes a new page in his life, a step to a big life unfamiliar to him before.
The scriptwriter of the movie is Vidadi Gasanov, the director of photography is Rafig Guliyev, art directors are Rafig Nasirov and Ibrahim Halil Aminov, the composer is Rauf Aliyev, and producers are Mushvig Hatamov and Azer Guliyev.
The Steppe Man has already attended nearly 30 international film festivals and forums and received a number of awards.
The film was awarded "For Fairytale Reality" at DIDOR International Film Festival -2012, "For creative research" at International Telekinoforuma "Together", "Best Director" at Noida International Film Festival 2015, "Golden World Awards" at World Film Awards 2015 and others.
Besides, film was included in the list of candidates for the American Film Academy OSCAR 2014 in the nominee "Best foreign language film".
"The Steppe Man" has been also included into the main program of two international film festivals - Crystal Castle Alanya International Film Festival, to be held in Turkey on May 1-9 and "CayFilm" Cayman Islands International Film Festival, to be held in USA from June 30 to 3 July.
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Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @Lam_Ismayilova
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