Movies by Rafig Aliyev

Last Night of Last Year

Last Night of Last Year

The film is dedicated to a mother who protects the warmth of her hearth, the peace and well-being of her family.

A Most Ordinary Story

A Most Ordinary Story

A father about to die remains silent. Everyone is tortured by his silence. His sons accuise themselves or rather, accuse each other. The closest relatives feel like strangers in their own family. The father understands that he is the reason for the family drama. When he was young, he was attracted by wrong ideas and committed a sin for which fate now punishes him.

The Circle

The Circle

The film is about political events which took place in 1989.

Strange Time

Strange Time

The film is about a young woman nursing her father, when things don't go to plan.

The Contact

The Contact

In search of housing, a student stumbles upon an advertisement for renting an apartment at a very reasonable feeā€”and promptly agrees with a woman who recently laid her son to rest, complying with all her conditions. The young man settles into the apartment and gradually becomes a witness to inexplicable mystical phenomena.

The Exam

The Exam

After the play of the same name of Anar.

The Sentenced

The Sentenced

Unable to find a cure for her illness, Leyla's father and mother take her to the hospital in Umbaki and forget about her once and for all. For Leyla, life begins with the arrival of student Eldar for an internship at this hospital.

The Family

The Family

January 1990, Baku. The Soviet Union hasn't collapsed yet. Around 300 thousand Azeri have been forsed out from their homes in Armenia and Daghlig Garabagh. Rallies of protest, political meetings spring up in Baku. The old patriarch, Ismail gathers under his roof distant relatives, people of different nationalities, beliefs, and ideas. The old man is tortured by everything happening around him: unrest in the city as well as discord and discarder in his own overpopulated apartment. All his efforts to preserve the family are in vain. People wan...

Good Bye, Southern City

Good Bye, Southern City

The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment block from war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh. Fariz's relations with his new neighbors are strained by his accusations that it was people like them who failed to support the Azeris in their conflict with ethnic Armenians. The only one who stands up to him is Alik, who acts as peacemaker between him and t...