AlibeyliAzerbaijan
2006, 25min.
 Script: Elvan Mamedov, Dir.: Ayaz Salaev, Dir. of Phot.: Elman Nabiev, Prod.: Ilham Safarov.
The film is comprised of twin documentaries that tell the story of two next-door villages: Aygepar in Armenia, and Alibeyli in Azerbaijan. Up until the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict, the inhabitants of the villages depicted in the documentaries enjoyed normal relations, with interpersonal, interfamilial, and economic ties. Those ties were abruptly and tragically broken by the war. Former friends and associates were drawn into the hostilities, often unaware of the damage that their bullets and bombs caused to their neighbors on the other side of the border. Twelve years into the cease-fire, the inhabitants of both villages pause to reflect on friendship and enmity, war and peace, and the possibility of a clean slate leading to coexistence. | Salayev, Ayaz  Born in 1960 in Baku.
In 1982 he graduated from VGIK, Moscow, Department of Film Critics. 1986-1988 - studied at VGIK post graduate course. Since 1983 he has worked as an editor, author of TV programs, teacher of cinema, and scientific worker in the Academy of Science. Was Chief Curator of the State Film Archive of Azerbaijan. At present he is the film director of the Internews Azerbaijan.
Filmography
Ata (doc., 1988), Yarasa (feature, 1995).
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