The film-discursive program New Azerbaijani Cinema opens a public dialogue on documentary work by filmmakers from Azerbaijan. It provides insights into Azerbaijani social realities and the documentary scene, with the focus on the work of the emerging director Atanur Nabiyeva. The director joined the discursive part of the program via video link.

Grey Zone (2021, 34′) explores family dynamics in the director’s own home during the onset of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Moon Without a House (2023, 22′) is a poetic investigation of the relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter in an isolated mountainous region of Azerbaijan.

Kirshan (2019, 13′) is a portrait of Nabiyeva’s grandmother Rana, and a study of self-perception regarding what it means to be a woman in Azerbaijani society, past and present.

Through a series of interviews, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2024, 11′) examines the everyday lives of men returning from the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Nabiyeva is the recent recipient of the Patch & Pitch CineLink award at the Sarajevo Film Festival for her first feature-length documentary in development, Echoes of Avey. During the conversation, she discussed with the curator and moderator Lucija Furač the significance of programs such as Sarajevo Talents, opportunities for film professionals from the South Caucasus within national, regional, and European contexts, and the networking of creative industries between the South Caucasus and the Western Balkans.

The talk and the screenings took place on October 16, 2025, at Multimedia Institute in Zagreb.

The program was co-funded by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, with partners Multimedia Institute and Dokumentarni.net. Institutional support for the projects of the association Dokumetar is provided by the Kultura Nova Foundation and the Croatian Audiovisual Centre.