Private Project

A and 24 Others

This film will be based on the events that took place in Baku in 2017. The police started a mass arrest of LGBT+ people without any reason. The same people were kept for about 2 weeks in terrible conditions, tortured and beaten.

One of these police officers comes to the bar. Starts drinking and having fun. After liters of alcohol, he comes to the dance floor and starts dancing. Against this background, we hear the voices of people who survived this terrible event. Suddenly, in the midst of the dance, the cop begins to have glitches in his mind. What is happening around begins to remind him of the things that he did.

  • Vusala Hajiyeva
    Director
    Director/Writer
  • Eldar Aslanov
    Cinematographer
    Cinematographer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Feature, Short
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 42 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 30, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    1,500 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Azerbaijan
  • Country of Filming:
    Georgia
  • Language:
    Azerbaijani
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital (HD)
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Vusala Hajiyeva

She was born in 1994 in Baku. She began her creative activity after entering a music school. It was during her school years that she began writing music and writing poetry. The main themes of her poems are social inequality and the problems of the queer community. After graduating from school, she entered the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts as a film director. Immediately she shot a short documentary "Symphony of Noise". After her coming out as a trans woman, the university administration created problems and she was not allowed to take her graduation exam. She is currently working on a new documentary, writing poetry and articles, and doing artivism.

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