Hilal Baydarov

Hilal Baydarov Azerbaijani Hiləl Baydarov Russian Хилал Байдаров born 1987 Baku is an Azerbaijan filmmaker cinematographer and editor During his high school years he won the national championships of mathematics twice in 2004 and 2005 In 2011 he lead the Azerbaijani team at the informatics olympiad After a master in computer sciences Baydarov studied at the Sarajevo Film Academy under acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr before going on to make his feature debut HILLS WITHOUT NAMES 2018 which premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival the same year his documentary debut BIRTHDAY won the Docu Talent Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival Since then Hilal has completed an awardwinning trilogy of documentaries set in Katech Azerbaijan WHEN THE PERSIMMONS GREW 2019 which won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary at the Sarajevo and the Interreligious Award and Special Jury Mention at Visions du réel MOTHER AND SON 2019 which premiered in the main competition at IDFA and NAILS IN MY BRAIN 2020 which premiered at Cinema du réel His second feature film IN BETWEEN DYING 2020 became a participant in the man competition of the 77th Venice Film Festival