Kömür (2019)

Directed by

Esmaeel Monsef

Genre

drama film, drama fiction

Country

France

Runtime

1h 26m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A film following characters in a coal-related setting in Azerbaijan. It deals with everyday struggles and cultural tensions around language.

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What happens

Coal (Azerbaijani: Kömür) – a film by Azerbaijani scenarist and film director Ismayil Munsif and by French producer Etienne de Ricaud. The use of Azerbaijani Turkic in the movie caused some obstacles. The film was not awarded at the Fajr International Film Festival. The director said that, this was due to the fact that the film was shot in Azerbaijani Turkic. Later, the promotion of the film was banned in the city of Ardabil under the pretext of promoting pan-Turkism. However, there was nothing promoting Turkism in the script of the film. A day after the banning ordered by the Irshad and Culture Department of Ardabil, the Turkic-language film "Coal" was allowed to be screened in Ardabil in the face of protests. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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