Hilal Baydarov Trailers
Nails in My Brain TrailerWhen the Persimmons Grew TrailerMother and Son Trailer
Hilal Baydarov (Azerbaijani: Hiləl Baydarov; Russian: Хилал Байдаров; born 1987; Baku) is an Azerbaijan filmmaker, cinematographer and editor.
During his high school years, he won the national championships of mathematics twice in 2004 and 2005. In 2011 he lead the Azerbaijani team at the informatics olympiad. After a master in computer sciences, Baydarov studied at the Sarajevo Film Academy under acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr before going on to make his feature debut HILLS WITHOUT NAMES (2018), which premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival, the same year his documentary debut BIRTHDAY won the Docu Talent Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Since then Hilal has completed an award-winning trilogy of documentaries set in Katech Azerbaijan: WHEN THE PERSIMMONS GREW (2019) which won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary at the Sarajevo and the Interreligious Award and Special Jury Mention at Visions du réel; MOTHER AND SON (2019), which premiered in the main competition at IDFA; and NAILS IN MY BRAIN (2020) which premiered at Cinema du réel. His second feature film IN BETWEEN DYING (2020) became a participant in the man competition of the 77th Venice Film Festival.
Most Popular Hilal Baydarov Trailers
Total trailers found: 11
19 January 2019
In rural Azerbaijan, a mother welcomes her adult son, who left home eight years earlier. In the calm rhythm of rural life, reflective silences punctuate their personal, philosophical conversations.
24 January 2022
Musa, a law student seeks out Davud, a man imprisoned for kidnapping four women. He soon discovers that all of his victims have no wish to press charges.
01 March 2020
A young man wanders through the ruins of what may or may not be his childhood home, where each crumbling doorway opens up onto the past.
24 January 2018
After many years the Wanderer returns to his land to hear the Voice again which can be heard only there.
27 October 2018
One man and an apartment, about which we know nothing. This is the premise of a conceptual documentary based on the concept of providing a deliberately limited amount of information to the viewer.
26 October 2018
Birthday of a lonely woman. Her husband died years ago and her sons left her alone. She expects only a simple telephone call but nobody calls.
10 June 2021
The love story of Davud, a young man in search of his ‘true’ family, who completes his life cycle in a single day.
03 August 2022
Davud returns from war to find everyone in his village has succumbed to a strange illness and has decomposed.
26 October 2023
Davud and Sura are under siege. They wait for the Hunter. Hunter is omnipresent.
11 April 2019
Immobile in a home where the sands of time fall to the rhythm of the rural Azerbaijani sounds, a mother waits for her son.
05 September 2025
As the world comes to an end, Shah Ismail embarks on a quest for the water of Life.
