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IFF Message to Man > 2024 > International Competition: Short Documentary films > POV Memory

POV Memory

Information about the film

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Igor Smola

Operator: Alisa Tarelicheva

Screenwriter: Igor Smola

Cast: Asiman Aga Rovshan, Vusala Aghayeva, Ayla Aghaeva, Mahir Asadov, Arzuman Mirzasoy, Tamerlan Khalilov

Producer: Igor Smola, Shuai Shi, Emil Najafov

Producer company : Accattone Production, Cineaste Production

Year: 2023

Country: Azerbaijan-Singapore

Duration: 13 min.

Languages: English, Russian

Description

Through the lens of evolving recording devices, from 16mm film reels and VHS tapes to modern gadgets, CCTV cameras, and military thermal imaging, we follow an army man. He locks his trophies in a jewelry box as a keepsake, cherishes a family photo, and films recruits at boot camp. Yet, he’s captured on CCTV committing a crime — a deed forever etched in a computer’s memory.

About the director:

Igor Smola
Director. 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. He lived in St. Petersburg from age 15. In 2017, he made his first film in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a docufiction titled Trigger, which participated in the out-of-competition programme of the Sarajevo Film Festival and the competition at the “Spirit of Fire” International Film Festival. Since 2020, he has been living in Azerbaijan and released his second work, Destruction, in 2022.

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