Azerbaijani documentary film joins Zagreb film festival
By Nigar Orujova
The documentary "My Kith and Kin", a film about the journey of a child through her home country, by Azerbaijani film director Rodion Ismailov will participate in the main documentary film program of the 11th Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia, on October 25.
The main program offers feature-length and short fiction films and documentaries. The documentary program presents 12 medium-length and feature-length documentary films. They will compete for Golden Pram for Best Documentary Film.
For more than a decade, Zagreb Film Festival has been presenting the latest and most interesting debutant auteur films. This year, from October 20-27, the festival will offer more than 100 films from all over the world, divided in ten different programs.
The festival is organized by the Zagreb Film Festival Artistic Organization.
Recently, "My Kith and Kin" was declared the best film at the 4th International Tourist Film Festival Meeting with Russia in the city of Tula, and received the best full-length documentary film award at the 23rd international film festival "Message to Man" in Saint Petersburg.
The storyline of "My Kith and Kin" is based on the first visit by lead character Lolita to Azerbaijan. Lolita personifies two cultures, as her mother is Russian and her father is Azerbaijani.
This delicate and compelling story describes a ten-year-old girl who comes to Azerbaijan for the first time to be acquainted with her father's relatives. Lolita aspires to learn about the culture and traditions of her Azerbaijani family members.
The 63-minute long film of the DS FILM Production Center was made with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Russia in the Tovuz region of Azerbaijan. Camera operator of the film is Mikhail Gorobchuk, music was composed by Vladimir Kuptsov, and the producers are Rodion Ismailov and Svetlana Dalskaya.
The film won "The best anthropologic film" award at the eighth Open Russian Anthropological Film Festival (RAFF) in April and was nominated for "Best Documentary" at the eleventh Almaty International Film Festival "Shaken's Stars".
The film was also shown at the international documentary film festival "Visions du Réel" ("The images of reality") in Nyon, Switzerland, in April.
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