Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan travel will guide you if you are planning a trip to this country. The Republic of Azerbaijan has borders Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Russia and Iran along with the Caspian Sea acting as the coastline. Since the global tourist visit this country therefore the country is well-connected to different parts of the world. All the cities of Azerbaijan can be accessed from almost all corners of the world which makes it a favorite tourist haunt. The Azerbaijan travel is the complete guide to...Read Full Story

Russian director Egor Konchalovsky has decided to prepare a 10-film project, titled “Baku, I love you”. Last week Konchalovsky visited Baku (capital of Azerbaijan) to discuss the project. Egor Konchalovsky is known in Russia for “Anti-Killer” and “Anti-Killer 2″ films. His father is Andrey Konchalovsky is also a film director (he worked with S. Stallone and Kurt Russell on “Tango & Cash”), and his uncle is well-known Russian actor and director Nikita Mikhalkov. 10 directors from Azerbaijan...Read Full Story

Couple of days ago, I stumbled upon a few film related news on Azerbaijan, that made me feel sorry once again for country’s “success” in the film business. It seems like all of the recent movies shot in Azerbaijan are being commissioned by either Ministry of Culture and Tourism or by some other government related organization. There’s no independent spirit, which is a shame, or course. This has been going on for quite a while, and it concerns even those films which were shot by foreigners...Read Full Story

S ource: Al Arabiya Israel is using Azerbaijan, a former soviet republic bordering Iran, as a base to spy on the regime in Tehran, the London Times reported Saturday. The newspaper cited testimony from an anonymous Mossad agent, referred to only as Shimon. “This is ground zero for intelligence work,” Shimon told The Times. “Our presence here is quiet, but substantial. We have increased our presence in the past year, and it gets us very close to Iran. This is a wonderfully porous...Read Full Story

Regarding the 33rd anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the capital of Azerbaijan (Baku) is hosting the days of Iranian cinema. The even will last for only two days, February 6-7. At the opening, head of the Iranian culture center, Ibrahim Nuri said that Iranian cinema gives preference to the moral and spiritual values, while staying away from immorality and violence. He also added, that over 100 feature films are being produced in Iran each year. It’s planned to...Read Full Story

French actor Gerard Depardieu reportedly said that he’s still sticking to the idea of making a documentary film about French writer Alexander Dumas’ visit to Azerbaijan, according to online information radio USA WNWI (1080 AM). Not only that, he also plans to attract famous Hollywood and European actors to this project. Last year, Depardieu visited Azerbaijani capital of Baku. Among the usual things that he did here (such as visiting Icheri Sheher, meeting country’s officials, etc), he...Read Full Story

Azerbaijani producer Tahir Aliyev, who’s currently working and living in Finland, received an invitation to the 62nd Berlin Film Festival. Aliyev will get a chance to show his film “Woman on Hold” there. The International festival will be held from 9 to 19 of February, 2012. “Woman on Hold” was presented at many International Film Festivals in Europe, and in Finland as well. It was shot with support from Finnish and Spanish TV-channels. “Woman on Hold” seems to be a feature film, and...Read Full Story

Azerbaijan plans to complete production of over 10 documentary, feature and cartoon films in 2012, according to Yusif Sheikhov, Cinematorgraphy department official of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan. Sheikhov noted that the production of these films expands beyond Azerbaijan, to such countries as Germany, Georgia, Turkey, Russia and others. Some feature films are also in production with joint collaboration with Spain. Sheikhow added, that one of these feature films is...Read Full Story

Azerbaijani producer Tahir Aliyev, who’s currently working and living in Finland, received an invitation to the 62nd Berlin Film Festival. Aliyev will get a chance to show his film “Woman on Hold” there. The International festival will be held from 9 to 19 of February, 2012. “Woman on Hold” was presented at many International Film Festivals in Europe, and in Finland as well. It was shot with support from Finnish and Spanish TV-channels. “Woman on Hold” seems to be a feature film, and...Read Full Story

Film “Azerbaijan in 2011 – age 20, 11 youth”, devoted to 20th anniversary of the restoration of state independence of Azerbaijan has been presented to the wide public. According to News.az website, the film story is based on evaluation of active youth in the events in Azerbaijan for 20 years of independence. The film is divided into five parts – “Education”, “Activities of Youth,” “Tolerance”, “Tourism” and “Baku”. Film can be considered a short, since its runtime is a little under 30...Read Full Story