Culture

It was early December, and there was no snow in Quba, but the town administrator still told me I was too late....

When we say "independent cinema", the first thought that comes to mind in Azerbaijan is that if a director's film is funded...

The National Library of Moldova (BNRM) and the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Chisinau, with the support of Moldova’s Culture Ministry, today organized...

Minsk Mayor Vladimir Kukharev met with Azerbaijani ambassador to Belarus Ulvi Bakhshaliyev on 8 December to discuss the implementation of the project...

Rufat “Ru” Hasanov’s Daxildəki ada (The Island Within), which premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in last August and won a Heart...

In this series, Faig identifies each of his three works with an important medieval figure connected to his homeland, Azerbaijan. Each figure...

A picture by an Anadolu Agency reporter based in the Asia-Caucasia region won the "Visitors' favorite photograph" award in a contest in...

The Azerbaijani village of Lahij lies in a gorge of the Nial mountains, about a three-hour drive west of Baku. Its narrow...

Paris-based outfit MPM Premium has boarded the world sales of Hilal Baydarov’s new feature Crane Lantern, Cineuropa has learned.

What we do and should call classical music and what "classical" means in general are the topics that came up in my...

Banality is tiring. Especially when you are young, you often get tired of hearing the same idea, naturally reacting to it with...

Any critical artist with the pretense of actualizing a strong critical statement but fated to cultural production in the framework of legitimate...

The ancient Azerbaijani city of Gabala played host once again to its famous music festival this summer, after a year’s hiatus due...

He befriended the private secretary of the then head of the Soviet Azerbaijani government and even painted a portrait of him. Musayev...

In modern Azerbaijan, tradition is equated with the concept of "mentality"—a totality of hard-to-traverse qualities that are fragments of archaic customs, national...

What can be easier than listening to music? Scratching your head? Even then, you would have to use your hand, whereas you...

Play is one of the oldest and most basic human needs. With the advent of new technologies, this need revealed human instincts....

Ancient Greek myths as a narrative that took shape in the pre-literate era has a special built-in device, through which anyone who...

No form of music tugs at the heartstrings of Azerbaijanis more than the sound of Mugham. This centuries-old musical tradition draws on...

There is this scene in Pasolini's Medea (1969): Medea watches Jason's sleeping body. The camera slowly slides down Jason's bare chest. The...

The 1940s and 1950s are the time when the film noir (“dark film”) genre took flight in American cinema. There was a...

War is often an amalgamation of various objectives. One of the core aims of the occupation of Azerbaijani territory by Armenia was...

In 2002, the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation published a report on the circumstances and causes of the Srebrenica massacre. According to...

The Art of Carpet — Evolution of Meanings Exhibition from the collection of the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum opened in the Manege...