Tunes of Sanatorium
Leylakhanim Ganbarli / Azerbaijan / 2022 / World Premiere / 15 min.
synopsis
For thirty years now, a dilapidated house has been providing essential asylum to war refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh. Three generations, including the children and grandchildren of people made to leave their homes, struggle to scratch an existence on the outskirts of Baku. They are faced with common problems: loss of home, outrooting, sadness and illnesses.
“Since the end of the second war, I have often dreamed of our own home.”
biography
Baku-born Leylakhanim Ganbarli (b. 1992) has her music education in piano playing. She later studied film university programmes in Azerbaijan and Turkey. She is the author of several documentary shorts out of which A Butcher's Daughter (2021) has been screened at Cinedoc Tbilisi and DokuBaku IDFF (Jury Award).more about film
| director: | Leylakhanim Ganbarli |
| producer: | Durna Safarova |
| editing: | Orkhan Aghazade |
| sound design: | Nadir Mahmudov |
contact
Durna Safarova
Azerbaijan
durna.safarova@gmail.com
Film at festival
| premiere type: | World Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2022 |
| section: | Ji.hlava Online, Short Joy |
| language: | Azerbaijani |
| subtitles: | English |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Leylakhanim Ganbarli |
| original title: | Sanatoriya əzgiləri |
| country: | Azerbaijan |
| year: | 2022 |
| running time: | 15 min. |
