Baku Cinema Breeze International Film Festival returns to celebrate global cinema once again in Azerbaijan! Baku Cinema Breeze International Film Festival (BCB) is proud to announce that its 2025 edition will take place from December 5–11, 2025. One of the region’s most anticipated cultural events, BCB continues to solidify Azerbaijan as a vibrant meeting point for filmmakers, producers and film enthusiasts from around the world. Now in its...

The AIAZ International Short Film Festival was held at the Salaam Cinema in Baku. The AIAZ film festival is the first artificial intelligence-based film festival in the Caucasus and the region. The festival demonstrated the beginning of the era of artificial intelligence in cinema and the synthesis of art and technology over two days.
In addition to the film screenings, artificial intelligence specialist Umid Salay held a master class, the Jafjab sta...

One of the main projects of the Azerbaijan Cinematographers Union is the training programs for cinematographers. These programs aim to provide not only theoretical knowledge but also practical skills for novice and aspiring directors, screenwriters and producers. For this purpose, the ACI announces a new project: “Create your own film!” short film laboratory.

The goal of the laboratory is for participants to develop their original...

The Azerbaijan Animation Association, the winner of the 2025 major grant competition of the State Support Agency for Non-Governmental Organizations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, has completed the production of the short animated film “Bum-bum”. The short film, based on the motifs of the poem of the same name written for children by Vagif Samadoglu, will soon be presented to young viewers.
The directors and screenwriters of the short anim...

The presentation of the feature-documentary film "Window to Victory" was held at the Nizami Cinema Center. The author of the film dedicated to the 5th anniversary of our Victory is a member of the Audiovisual Council, Honored journalist Mubariz Asgarov. The 44-minute film is about Dilgam Asgarov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by Armenian separatists. In the film, Dilgam, who walks through the prison step by step, talks about the painful moments...

The filming of the feature film "44", which tells the story of the Patriotic War, has been completed. Anar Alakbarov, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, shared this on his social media account: "The filming of the feature film "44", which we have been working on with great effort for 4 years, has been successfully completed today. Serious and responsible work awaits us in the upcoming post-production stage. I express my deep grati...

On October 31, 2025, the final meeting of the “Appeal Commission” regarding the results of the “Competition of Film Projects to be Produced with State Support” for 2025 organized by the Cinema Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, operating under the Ministry of Culture, was held.
The meeting was attended by members of the commission - Honored Art Worker of the Republic of Azerbaijan and film director Elkhan Jafarov,
People...