He Was A Giant With Brown Eyes
He Was A Giant With Brown Eyes
Eileen Hofer
Edition: 2012
Sections: International Competition
Documentary,
Azerbaijan, Switzerland
2012, 85', 8 Mm, Silent 16 Mm, Mono Mixed Media,
Writer: Eileen Hofer
Photography: Javier Gesto
Music: Aisha Devi Melanie Enz (Kate Wax), Julien Painot, Ladislav Agabekov
Sound: Benjamin Benoit (Montagem Som/sound Editor), Daniel Alvarez Flores, François Musy, Gabriel Hafner
Montage: Andres Enis, Valentin Rotelli
With: Namik Agamaliyev, Narmina Agamaliyeva, Sabina Agamaliyeva, Vagif Agamaliyev
Producer: Eileen Hofer
Production: 5 To Five Team Production, Eileen Hofer
Writer: Eileen Hofer
Photography: Javier Gesto
Music: Aisha Devi Melanie Enz (Kate Wax), Julien Painot, Ladislav Agabekov
Sound: Benjamin Benoit (Montagem Som/sound Editor), Daniel Alvarez Flores, François Musy, Gabriel Hafner
Montage: Andres Enis, Valentin Rotelli
With: Namik Agamaliyev, Narmina Agamaliyeva, Sabina Agamaliyeva, Vagif Agamaliyev
Producer: Eileen Hofer
Production: 5 To Five Team Production, Eileen Hofer
Sabina leaves Switzerland and her mother to go to Azerbaijan and be with her father and her sister. Emotionaly charged she is trying to balance herself between two worlds, two cities, two cultures, two identities. She is trying to bring things together, to form herself and also deconstruct the image of father-hero. The Azerbaijani culture and its strick tradition change the way she knows things work. What is beautiful in Switzerland is slutty in Azerbaijan yet she is willing to stay. An emotional journey into a separated family through the eyes of a 17 years old girl and through the lens of Eileen Hofer, refusing to decide between fiction and documentary, creates a honest cross-cultural portait of life, self-discovery and abandonment gaining two siters Sabina and Narmina. (Nina Veligradi)
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