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IFF Message to Man > 2025 > International Competition: Short Documentary films > My Name Is Oil

My Name Is Oil

Information about the film

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Igor Smola

Operator: Alisa Tarelicheva

Screenwriter: Igor Smola

Cast: Mahir Asadov, Kamran Ibishov, Elshan Mamedov

Producer: Igor Smola, Gregory Bagaev, Emil Najafov, Ilkin Mahammadly

Producer company : Gargantua Film Distribution

Year: 2025

Country: Azerbaijan

Duration: 14 min.

Languages: Azerbaijanian

Description

Russian premiere

The oil in the film is shown as a living organism with a heart and arteries. This organism can foresee a disaster caused by human intervention.

About the director:

Igor Smola
Filmmaker, born in 1989 in a closed town of Murmansk-150. At 11, he moved with his parents to Biysk, where he developed an interest in cinema, and later lived in St. Petersburg from age 15. In 2017, he made his first film in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the docufiction Trigger, which was shown in the out-of-competition programme of the Sarajevo Film Festival and in competition at the Spirit of Fire International Film Festival. Since 2020, he has been living in Azerbaijan, where he released his second film Destruction (2022). Igor’s third film, POV Memory (2023), participated in the International Competition of the 34th Message to Man Film Festival, as well as at ZINEBI, True/False, and the Uppsala Film Festival.

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