Rasim Jafar

Apathy 2 (2025)

The main character of the film, Akif, escapes from an orphanage to find his mother. On this painful journey, with an uncertain ending, the protagonist faces numerous challenges. The swift intervention of a prosecutor's office employee raises many questions ...

Taghiyev: Oil (2024)

August 1922. An American journalist, Jerry Thompson, travels to the Soviet Union and arrives in Azerbaijan. He visits the settlement of Mardakan in Baku. There, he meets an elderly man at a villa. Thompson can hardly believe what he hears. Standing before ...

Ararat (2023)

Zeynep has caused a traffic accident in Berlin. She escapes to her parents' home in Turkey where her self-destructive and sexually assertive behaviour infuriates more than just her family. Looming above them like a portent is the dormant volcano Ararat. ...

The Naked (2023)

The hero, who wants to volunteer to help with his neighbor's funeral, is unexpectedly confronted with the most shocking truth of his life - the deceased is his close relative. During the days he spends in cemeteries, the hero meets various people, witnesse ...

Poison Bottle (2021)

Adil continues his journey in cinema, with two timelines depicting different stages of his life. In the present, he struggles to save Leyla's unborn child from being aborted, while the second timeline explores a key event from his past. ...

Sughra and Her Sons (2021)

1945. The women do the work in a remote village while the men are fighting the Nazis. A small group of deserters is hiding in the mountains and little Bahtiyar acts as the liaison between the men and the village. ...

Olimpia (2021)

The film tells the heartwarming tale of Ilgar Suleymanov, a former Olympic medalist who has settled into a quiet life in his hometown. Despite having close friends and a love for fishing, Ilgar is haunted by his loneliness and lack of direction. However, w ...

The Fisherman's Daughter (2020)

In a tiny Azerbaijani fishing village young Sarah's father disappears at sea. Misfortunes abound until the superstitious inhabitants demand a funeral. Rebellious Sarah undertakes one last, and deadly, attempt to find her father. ...

Karantinvari boşanma (2020)

Goodbye Schmidt! (2019)

"Goodbye Schmidt!". A movie, which deeply hints, even though it doesn't make to think about…* Emil Schmidt belongs to the German ethnicity and wishes to immigrate to Germany. He dreams to realize his goal by applying to the German Embassy with official ...

Qaragöz (2018)

Qara is a famous actor, genius at his work, a good person, but he is very frugal, extremely tight-lipped. Due to this nature, he is alone in life. But one day, his son, whom he never knew he had, comes to him and his life changes. Qara starts to like Nigar ...

A Man of the Third Day (2017)

The film tells the story of a man, who was in prison when the invaders occupied his native land. When he gets out from prison, he tries to find ways to visit his parents' graves, which are located on the occupied lands now. ...

Shanghai, Baku (2016)

Samir is an amateur filmmaker. Along with his despotic father and older sister Roza he resides in "Shanghai", a slum located in close proximity to downtown Baku, the capital of the oil rich Republic of Azerbaijan. By sheer accident, Samir captures a video ...

The Lesson (2016)

The film tells about school life, the mutual relations of teenage schoolmates, views on friendship and life, and the formation of these views. ...

Dance of Good and Evil (2016)

Before his death, the jeweler wrote a will in which he mentioned the famous diamond "Abbas Shah." But when the heirs discovered his personal safe, the diamond was not there. Without hesitation, they turned for help to the detective Drongo, who, as everyone ...

Ali and Nino (2016)

Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world's struggle for Baku's oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their cou ...

Baku, I Love You (2015)

The film anthology includes 10 short films: "Asia", "Meeting", "Artist", "Yard", "Bahram Gur", "Lottery Ticket", "Caspian Atlantis", "About love", "Aysel" and "Coincidence". Each screenplay in the project reflects different moments in the life of Baku. Sho ...

Torn (2014)

Two worlds, two stories: a man and a boy. The kid goes down to the yard to make friends with the neighborhood children. A man has a date on the roof. ...

Black & White Nights (2013)

A classic and at the same time unrealistic and phantasmagoric love story with betrayal and hatred. A woman's ruthless hatred of her husband suddenly starts to surface in the programs of the TV channel she has co-founded with her husband. ...

The Swing of the Coffin Maker (2012)

Azerbaijan. Yagub has nothing left but beats his disabled son Musa until a shattering message brings about a sudden turn. ...

My Dear Fellini (2010)

The film is based on the events of Rasim (Rasim Jafarov), a literature teacher who came to Baku from the village to become a movie director. There he meets Leyla, a beautiful woman who he falls in love with. She calls him Fellini in honor of Italian film d ...

The Dolls (2010)

This half biographic movie is about 6 young teenager boys' working as a muppet in the Baku Boulevard and early 90's diplomatic situation in Baku. ...

Missing Man (2010)

In a Kafkaesque story about identity and free will, a well-to-do man finds himself suddenly struggling for his place in society in the face of authoritarian corporate and state interference. (Russian with English subtitles). ...

The Precinct (2010)

Baku, Azerbaijan. A famous photographer postpones his wedding once again due to an important job offer. During the inevitable quarrel with his fiancée, they have a car accident. ...

Death Queue (2009)

There are issues of spirituality, morality, love and loyalty in the center of the dramatic story that took place in one of the villages around Baku. ...

Fortress (2008)

A drama about a film crew making a movie in an isolated mountain town famous for its ancient fortress, and what happens when the town is threatened by a modern-day foreign invasion. ...

Liars (2008)

A young woman with a broken family is looking for happiness. She wants to remarry to get rid of loneliness, so she decides to use the Internet. The film also reflects the impact of the current transition period, economic and political changes on the inte ...

3 Girls (2007)

The plot of the film is based on three love stories. The events take place in Moscow, Baku and Africa, but most of them are related to the Azerbaijani capital. The film, shot in the comedy genre, takes place during the Great Patriotic War, when the Germans ...