28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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One Day in Selimpasha
One Day in Selimpasha
One Day in Selimpasha

One Day in Selimpasha

director: Hilal Baydarov
original title: Selimpaşada Bir Gün
country: Azerbaijan
year: 2018
running time: 64 min.

synopsis

One man and an apartment, about which we know nothing. This is the premise of a conceptual documentary based on the concept of providing a deliberately limited amount of information to the viewer. We look into the intimate space behind the closed front door, where the most ordinary activities are carried out: cooking lunch, preparing tea, eating lunch, starting a fire in the fireplace. In this residential monodrama, a second living actor is desperately lacking, one that would bring to life the plot embodied in speech. It becomes a study of a person’s existence in their most personal space - a dwelling that can be just as much a preserve of peace and security as a golden cage of solitude.

"What are the feelings of a person who does nothing while everyone expects him to do something? What should he do? In general, is there any difference between the emotions of two humans? What does portrait mean? A human face or something else?" H. Baydarov

biography

Hilal Baydarov was born in 1987 in Baku, Azerbaijan. During his high school years, he won the national championships of mathematics twice in 2004 and 2005. In 2011 he leads the Azeri team at the informatics olympiad in Thailand. After a master in computer sciences, he left for Sarajevo to study film directing with Bela Tarr. His debut feature film Hills Without Names was premiered at the Montreal Film Festival in 2018, the same year he won the Docu Talent award at Sarajevo Film Festival for his film BirthdayWhen the Persimmons Grew is Baydarov's third feature film which premiered in competition at the Visions du réel film festival in Nyon.

more about film

director: Hilal Baydarov
cast: Uğur Cebeci
producer: Uğur Cebeci
script: Hilal Baydarov
photography: Hilal Baydarov
editing: Hilal Baydarov
sound: Hilal Baydarov
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