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Sermon to the Fish
A Window on Asian Cinema
Crime/Violence · Disaster · Politics · Human Rights/Labor/Social · History/War
- CountryAzerbaijan/Mexico/Switzerland/Turkiye
- Production Year2022
- Running Time90min
- Format DCP
- ColorColor
Program Note
Azerbaijani director Hilal Baydarov, whose film In Between Dying competed in the Venice Film Festival in 2020, studied film with Bela Tarr at Sarajevo Film Academy. Thus it is inevitable to feel Tarr’s influence from his films. Baydarov sometimes captures landscapes that that other filmmakers might completely ignore, viewing these panoramas as though they were something completely new. At one point, for example, the filmmaker focuses on a puddle of water with oil in as a way to convey the bleak sentiments of a cruel world. Sermon to the Fish begins with the story of a man returning from war. His hometown is devastated, and his sister lives alone in the abandoned place. Both he and his sister know that people cannot live there any longer. It is a unique film that shows the wounds of war only through the ruined landscapes of the world. (NAM Dong-chul)
Director
Hilal BAYDAROV
Hilal Baydarov is a writer and director from Baku, Azerbaijan. After earning a master’s degree in computer science, he studied at the Sarajevo Film Academy. He was awarded at the Sarajevo International Film Festival and the Visions du Réel with a feature documentary, When the Persimmons Grew (2019), and was invited to the Venice International Film Festival to compete with a narrative feature film, In Between Dying (2020). In the following year, he was recognized with the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival with Crane Lantern (2021). Sermon to the Fish is the first episode of his war tales’ trilogy.
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Credit
- Director Hilal BAYDAROV 힐랄 바이다로프
- Producer Hilal BAYDAROV, Elshan ABBASOV, Carlos REYGADAS
- Cast Rana ASGAROVA, Orkhan ISKANDARLI, Huseyn NASIROV
- Screenplay Hilal BAYDAROV
- Cinematography Hilal BAYDAROV
- Editor Hilal BAYDAROV
- Sound Elshan BAYDAROV
- Music Kanan RUSTAMLI
- Production Company
Ucqar Film
Splendor Omnia Studios
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