Daniel Guliyev
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Biography
Daniel Guliyev graduated from Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts and the London Film School. He was employed as a first assistant director in an advertising company, Cinealliance, for two years after completing his bachelor's degree in film direction in Azerbaijan. Daniel opted to pursue an MA in Filmmaking at LFS after realising that his job path was diverging from his core interests in film. He wanted to get back into directing and cinematography. He honed his skills as a writer/director and cinematographer during his MA. His graduating project is titled 'Bastard.' At the 17th Kazan International Muslim Film Festival, it was presented. The film follows a little child who is continuously mistreated as a result of his mother's behaviour. As a consequence, the young man chose to enroll in a military institution in order to defend himself and his family. To achieve his goal, the young man had to pass severe exams that put his moral and physical strength to the test. The film of Daniel Guliyev sparked a lot of attention among the festival attendees.
Known For
Natig a 16 year - old teenager can’t accept the shame of his family any longer and joins the military tryouts in an attempt to break away from his life in a small village.
Bastard
In the summer of 2002, an 11-year-old boy grapples with his first experience of death while competing for the attention of a girl at a neighbor’s funeral.
Early Feelings
At the request of his colleague, the young lawyer goes to the courtroom to replace her, but he mixes up the rooms and ends up defending a brutal criminal. The following is a catastrophe.
Where Is The Lawyer?
The documentary sheds light on the lives of children who suffered physical and psychological trauma due to the terrorist attacks by Armenia on the eve of the Second Karabakh War.
Big Red House
The joint struggle of the Azerbaijani and Iranian police against the forces organizing international drug trafficking.
The Turned World
A modern Azerbaijani woman’s life is non stop all day as she juggles traditional and secular roles, her life subsumed by service for others while rarely getting the respect she deserves. Throughout the film we see how things are changing in progressive Azerbaijan, and how some things don’t change; like her, it is a country at a crossroads of seeming contradictions. This is the story of "a" woman, elements of whom are universal.
A Woman
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Forgive Me Tonight
Azerbaijani mother and daughter fleed Yerevan during the conflict and agree to exchange homes with an Armenian family in Baku. There is one condition: the elderly Armenian woman must stay in the house. The two women, isolated between walls built by blood and hostility, begin to search for a way to live together over time.
The Room of God
After years of being released from prison, Huseyn calls his wife Gulshad to meet him. Gulshad is hopeful that she will be reunited with the person she loves after many years. Moreover, she is waiting for a logical explanation for some unanswered questions. She wants to find out why Huseyn has not been meeting her, and whether he committed the crime. Huseyn also has his own plan for their meeting. They enter a cave with only one entrance, far from everyone and everything, to confront their past.
Shadows in Reverse
“A Lonely Person’s Monologue” is a classic father-son story. The author enriches it with additional details and meanings, taking it beyond the frame of domestic drama and placing the complex father-son relationship in the context of war.