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The Key

Azerbaijan, 2022, 19 minutes, Color, Azeri; Turkish captioned


Director:  Elshad Elsever

Screenplay: Elshad Elsever

Cinematography: Javid Delee

Editing: Elshad Rahimov

Production: Senur Ahador, Metin Alakberli

Cast: Qurban İsmayilov, Rasim Cafer, Reyhan Cafer, Hüseyin İsgenderov 

UMID, the internally displaced person (IDP) due to War, loses the set of keys belonging to his house which is currently under occupation. The keys represent the last hope to come back to his house, so UMID still hopes he will be back one day but the accident bears a strong symbolic meaning to him. He interprets it as losing the last hope.