International Features Competition
In Between Dying
Səpələnmiş Ölümlər Arasında
Swiss Premiere
Hilal Baydarov / Azerbaijan, Mexico, United States / 2020 / 88 min / Drama
Azerbaijani / Subtitles English, French
Azerbaijani / Subtitles English, French
In the presence of:
- Hilal Baydarov the 15 November 2020 - 20:15
A young man crosses Azerbaijan to escape death but sows it in his wake. The result is a sometimes surreal, sometimes toxic roadmovie between the contemplation of Tarkovsky’s Mirror and the sarcasm of Bergman’s Seventh Seal. A revelation at the last Venice Mostra.
“Cinema is poetic by nature. Films take me where I’ve never been and I need that.” Hilal Baydarov studied with Béla Tarr and his love for cinema seeps through his second movie. In this unusual western, nature is a character and the landscape, a face. A man’s life is turned upside down as he finds himself rescuing women like a knight in shining armor. Somewhere between Beckett and Kaurismäki, an absurd and epic journey…
Direction
Hilal Baydarov
Screenplay
Hilal Baydarov
Image
Elshan Abbasov
Editing
Hilal Baydarov
Sound
Orkhan Hasanov
Music
Kanan Rustamli
Production
Ucqar Film (Hilal Baydarov), Splendor Omnia Studios (Carlos Reygadas), Louverture Films (Joslyn Barnes), Ucqar Film (Elshan Abbasov)
With
Orkhan Iskandarli, Rana Asgarova, Huseyn Nasirov, Maryam Naghiyeva
International sales
Pluto Film (Daniela Cölle)
Hilal Baydarov / Azerbaïdjan, 1987
Filmography
2020, Nails in My Brain (documentary)
2019, When the Persimmons Grew (documentary)
2018, Hills Without Names