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I Still Talk to You

Mən hələ də səninlə danışıram
Turkan Huseyn
International Competition Documentary Film 2023
Documentary Film
Azerbaijan
2023
15 minutes
Azerbaijani
Subtitles: 
English

A poetical quotation puts a damper on high expectations of earthly life. Because human beings were not sent to earth but cast out to it. Disappointments are to be expected. In “I Still Talk to You,” Turkan Huseyn illustrates a conversation with her friend. It is about love and the longing to return to the past, about childhood and its no longer existing coordinates in time and space. A melancholy dialogue broken up by brief encounters: stranded looking people who also explain their views of and experiences with love. Meanwhile, the fish in the Caspian Sea are coated in a thin layer of oil that merely needs to be wiped off. It used to be less dirty here, Turkan Huseyn says. When you are a child, everything seems less dirty, her friend replies. A laconic zooming back and forth between inside and outside, in the centre of which a few buckets of blood-red flowers bloom anyway.

Carolin Weidner

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Director
Turkan Huseyn
Cinematographer
Turkan Huseyn
Producer
Emil Najafov, Turkan Huseyn
Sound Design
Hafiz Ibrahim