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When a father is unexpectedly released from prison after serving ten years for killing his wife, his son wants to find out why he did it.

A young man tells the dream he had about running away with the daughter of chief of police to his grandma. People spread and exaggerate rumors as if it was a real story until it reaches to the chief himself.

Gabil returns home to the humble family farmstead, surrounded by an orchard of venerable pomegranate trees; since his sudden departure twelve years ago he was never once in contact. However, the deep emotional scars he left behind cannot be erased from one day to the next.

Ali coaches a rowing team in a provincial town. The young squad also includes his son Ruslan, who finds it difficult to meet the demands Ali makes on him, and his father's frostiness and continual dissatisfaction are getting him down. Ali is experiencing a crisis of middle age, and only Ruslan is preventing him from leaving his wife Leyla, whom he criticizes for spoiling their son. He finds solace in his Polish lover Sasha, who'd rather have Ali for herself and dreams of starting a new life with him. Just before an important race, in the interests of the team's performance, Ali decides to replace Ruslan, who was originally chosen for the event. But when tragedy strikes that same day, Ali is overcome with emotions he doesn't know how to deal with.

«Drongo» is the name of a secret agent, the protagonist of Chingiz Abdullayev's books, three of which formed the basis of the television series.

Maryam, an immigrant living in the US returns to her small village in Azerbaijan after discovering that her father is alive and residing in a psychiatric facility. She tries to help recover his mind with her memories but the struggle against the disease turns into a fight with her own conscience.

The film based on Agil Abbas's novel about Nagorno-Karabakh War.

An elderly couple confront the ravages of war in their poverty-stricken village.

"Buta" is the story of a lonely 7-year old boy (named Buta), who lives in a mountain village with his grandmother. He is befriended by an old man, a liquid soap merchant who once loved (and lost) Buta's grandmother. The old man's friendship and wise advice helps Buta to overcome his difficulties in life. Buta's grandmother, in the meantime, is weaving a special carpet in memory of Buta's mother. The carpet features a special pattern (also called "Buta"), which represents love. The boy is inspired by his grandmother's work, and decides to make his own "buta" made of rocks and stones, high on the top of the mountain...

Three girls in the their early twenties, each in search of something more in life, practice sport rifle shooting in their spare time. When their love is taken advantage of by three guys (a Thief, a Police officer, and a local Mafia leader), they find that there is only one way to escape from the circle of lies and deceit surrounding a mysterious painting.

An Azerbaijanian veteran of battle for Brest fortress takes gun again 50 years later - to defend Nagorny Karabakh from Armenians.

The film based loosely on the Nagorno-Karabakh War and Khojaly Genocide. The movie also includes scenes from Khojaly Genocide documentary by Chingiz Mustafayev.

"Red Garden" tells the story of Abbas - biology teacher, his wife Vafa - piano teacher and Orkhan - orphan, after his granny's death. Vafa wants to adopt Orkhan but Abbas is against of this idea. He wants a son from his own blood.

As a result of an unexpected event, a famous sports commentator is forced to spend New Year's Eve with a rock musician, and a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's disease is forced to spend New Year's Eve with a graffiti enthusiast. Is this is a coincidence or a miracle?

On the steppe, an old man and a young guy live far away from the people, selling the wool of the camels they look after. After the death of the older man, a girl with short hair comes out and adds her own story to the life of the younger man and changes his life.

The plot of the film is based on the investigation by the world famous detective Drongo of a mysterious incident that took place in a settlement in the mountainous region of Azerbaijan.

Arzu, a young girl growing up in contemporary Azerbaijan, falls in love with Rafael, her piano teacher's son, a veteran of the Karabakh War. Twice her age and unable to escape from the ravages of war, Rafael is forced to live on the edge of a society that sees him as a 'cripple.' Arzu, desperate to escape from the same repressive society which confines women to a strict, narrow path, chooses Rafael over her family and friends - but threatened by Arzu's mother, and guided by the wisdom born out of his own brokenness, Rafael makes the supreme sacrifice of love .

The film tells the story of people with lepers being treated in a hospital in the village of Umbaki. The film is based on real events.

The Burden is an Azerbaijani film about a day of the 19th-20th century famous tycoons from Baku Aga Musa Nagiyev and Haci Zeynalabdin Tagiyev.

Set in 1990 in the city of Baku, in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, an extended Armenian family headed by a Russian uncle live together in a crowded, crumbling, old apartment as the Soviet Union is collapsing. When the uncle wants the family to add another family member who has been forced to leave Armenia., turmoil ensues.

A young filmmaker of Azerbaijani origins decides to fulfill his seven-year obsession to make a docudrama about the short, tragic life of his late mother. Much to his American wife's consternation, the filmmaker decides to travel to Moscow and Azerbaijan to make the film. He casts a young woman to play his mother, who had been forced from her home to live in the artificially created new nation of Azerbaijan. Political and marital problems follow.

The film is a logical continuation of the film "Don't be afraid, I'm with you" (1981). Life separates friends Teymur, San Sanich and Rustam. Teymur is now a member of parliament, Rustam is a member of the Red Army, and San Sanich is the owner and teacher of a small Eastern combat school. The events take place during the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic - in 1919. The Romeo and Juliet of the East have a dangerous love affair. The girl's father is a composer and a member of parliament, and the boy's father is a robber. This time, inseparable friends unite to save Teymur's daughter Leyla.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s the Armenian minority in Nagorono-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan, one of the former Soviet republics. Overnight these former neighbors became enemies, and simple village folk were suddenly made hostages in a complex power game. One of the Azerbaijani villages right on the border is home to the family of the peasant farmer Kerim, who has just been captured by the Armenians. The village council decides to take an Armenian in order to arrange a hostage exchange. They imprison the wounded man in the barn next to Kerim's house, where his wife and three children desperately await the husband's return. The captive from the other side of the border finds himself in exactly the same situation - he, too, has three children, he finds it hard to scrape a living together, he has never done anything to harm anyone and, like Kerim, he just wants to go back home. But life in Karabakh is far more complex now. Blood calls for blood.