(MENAFN- AzerNews)
Laman Ismayilova read more Hilal Baydarov's film Sermon to the Fish will come on the big
screen at international film festivals, Azernews reports.
The film will be demonstrated at the 6th Pingyao International
Film Festival to start in China.
PAYOFF was founded in 2017 by Chinese film director,
screenwriter, and leading figure of the 'Sixth Generation' movement
of Chinese cinema Marco Muller in order to bring attention to works
done by young, lesser-known directors in the Chinese film industry,
as well as to strengthen collaboration between Chinese and
international filmmakers.
Furthermore, Hilal Baydarov's film will be screened at Trieste
Film Festival - Alpe Adria Cinema. The film festival will be
screened in Italy on January 21-28.
The Trieste Film Festival is an international film festival
founded in 1989. The film festival has become the leading festival
of Central and Eastern Europe cinema in Italy.
The film festival aims at supporting European films produced in
countries with low audiovisual production capacity to find
distribution and be promoted in Italy and neighboring
countries.
Sermon to the Fish saw its premiere last year at Locarno
International Film Festival in Switzerland.
The film received the Pardo Verde WWF Special Mention prize as
well as an environmental award from the junior jury.
Sermon to the Fish tells about a soldier who returns from war
and finds everyone in his village has rotten due to a mysterious
illness.
The only survivor, his sister, is also slowly rotting, with only
a dog to keep her company.
The film was co-produced by Azerbaijan, Mexico, Switzerland, and
Turkiye.
The scriptwriters of the film are Hilal Baydarov and Aisu Akjan.
The cast includes Rana Askarova, Orkhan Iskandarli, and Huseyn
Nasirov.
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