director

(02.03.1975)

Ilgar Najaf was born in Vedibasar district of Western Azerbaijan. In 198 he left his forced home with his family and moved to Sumgayit. Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts to study in the specialty of film and television director (1993-1997). In 200, he completed the film director courses of the director Krzysztof Zanussi in the international film “Avanti” with the F OCAL organization of Switzerland. He participated in the Talent Campus section of the Berlin film festival. Films participated in various international festivals and were awarded prizes. Ilgar Najaf won the “Golden Fairy” Professional Award of the Azerbaijan Film Academy in the nomination “Best Feature Film” with the film “Pomegranate Orchard” in 2018. In 2005, he founded “Butafilm” film company and currently manages it.

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FILMOGRAPHY:

1. Shadowless comas (2000, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter, producer
2. Azerbaijan (II) (2001, short documentary film) – director
3. There is an old man… (2002, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter, producer
4. Six months (2005, short documentary film) – producer
5. Sirat bridge (2007, feature film) – producer
6. Arxası qibləyə Back to Qiblah (2009, short feature film) – producer
7. Letter to Lenin (2009, short documentary film) – producer
8. Theatrical life (2009, short feature film) – director, screenwriter
9. Portrait painted in oil (2010, short documentary film) – executive producer
10. Buta (II) (2011, feature film) – director, screenwriter, producer
11. Temple of science in the years of independence (2011, short documentary film) – chief producer
12. Academic Bunyadov’s mission (2012, short documentary film) – chief producer
13. Ness (2012, feature film) – producer
14. Vagif I know (2015, short documentary film) – chief producer
15. The pomegranate orchard (2017, full-length feature film) – director, screenwriter, producer (“The best feature film” – “Golden Fairy” award, 2018)
16. Sugra and her sons (2020, full-length feature film) – director, screenwriter, executive producer