YARAT FILM CLUB PRESENTS ISMAIL SAFARALI’S FILM ONE ON ONE

YARAT Contemporary Art Centre is delighted to invite you to the screening of 'One on One' (Azerbaijan, 2014), a film written and directed by Ismail Safarali. The screening will be organized as a part of YARAT Film Club which aims to become an informal meeting point for the viewing and discussion of contemporary art videos and films.

Agali is a 12 year old boy who lives with his distant mother in the remote village in the northern Azerbaijan. He and his cousin and only friend Farrukh are inseparable and football is all they have in their otherwise dull and uneventful life, underlined by poverty and the roughness of the surrounding landscapes. Unlike Farrukh, Agali hates the school which he has no plans of graduating – he will be a top footballer like his hero, Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo.  Every day is a groundhog day for Agali and he spends it half asleep, half dreaming, and coming back to life only in the moments when him and Farrukh kick the football on the way to and back from school. But when the time comes for a middle-school graduation test, Agali realizes that something must be done to pass, with Farrukh’s mother’s teaching job suddenly at stake.  

Ismail Safarali was born in April 1978 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Educated at Baku School for Political Sciences (BA Diplomacy) and Duke University (Durham, NC) (MA Economics), Ismail had a distinguished career in banking before changing his trade for filmmaking in September 2013. Ismail is now a graduate (class 2015) of Moscow School of New Cinema (MSNC), laboratory of film directors Dmitry Mamulia and Bakur Bakuradze.

The film will be shown in Lazghi with Russian subtitles.

July 28, 2015

Time 19.00

YARAT Contemporary Art Centre (near the National Flag square)

Free admission

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