Nabat

Elchin Musaoglu : 2014

Nabat and her husband Iskender, an old and sick ex-forestry worker, live in a small isolated house far from the village. The war in the Nagorno-Karabakh has been raging for some time and their son was killed in action in the 1990s. Their sole means of survival is the sale of milk from their only cow that Nabat takes to the village every couple of days. As the shadow of war envelopes the region, the village is slowly deserted by its inhabitants. Following Iskender's death, Nabat is all alone with her memories: memories of her son, and of the way things were. In empty houses, she forages for belongings left behind and sometimes even lights an oil lamp to revive just a little of the village's former vibrancy. Soon, a she-wolf approaches the old farmer's wife and keeps an eye on her. Documentary filmmaker Elchin Musaoglu's second feature premiered in the Orizzonti section at Venice International Film Festival 2014, and screened at International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg 2014.