On December 28, 2025, the ceremony of presenting the professional awards of the Azerbaijan Film Academy "Golden Fairy" - 2025 in cinema and TV was held at the "Fikrat Amirov Conference and Concert Center" of "Khazar" University.

Golden Fairy Awards
1. Best Feature Film: “Life Seems Beautiful” – Vagif Mustafayev - Azerbaijanfilm
2. Best Directorial Work: Asif Rustamov – “Marble Cold” – Azerbaijan...

The Trabzon Film Festival, which was held for the first time in the Turkish city of Trabzon, has ended. The festival, which took place from December 24 to 28, 2025, was also significant for Azerbaijani cinema. Thus, Azerbaijani director Fariz Ahmadov successfully represented our country at the international level as a member of the festival jury.

Two main competitions, “Documentary” and “Short Feature Film”, were held...

At this stage, the compliance of the initial requirements for 32 full-length feature film projects submitted by 17 companies was checked, and at the same time, the treatments of the projects were evaluated from an artistic point of view.
During the evaluation, the main criterion was the compliance of the projects with the themes determined within the framework of the competition, and at the same time, the following projects advanced to the 3rd stage,...

The participants of the meeting held on December 24, Ramil Alakbarov, Parviz Mammadov, Nijat Dadashov, Ismayil Iman, Elvin Pasha, Sara Huseynova, Elkhan Khanalizadeh, Ulviyya Heydarova, Khanim Aydin, and the executive secretary of the AKI, Ali Isa Jabbarov, discussed the problems of our modern film dramaturgy.
The participants mainly focused on the problems that arise in the relationship between screenwriters and customers. The main subjects of discu...

Azerbaijani director Ilgar Safat's feature film "Native Land" won two awards at the "V Goldenhorn IFF" international film festival held in Istanbul. The "5th Goldenhorn IFF" festival, organized by the "Fotofilm Culture and Arts" organization in cooperation with the Faculty of Communication of Istanbul Aydin University, took place in Istanbul on December 10-12. 44 feature-length feature, documentary, and student films from 30 countries competed for the "...

An important event has taken place for the Azerbaijani film industry. The Azerbaijan Producers Guild (APG) has been officially accepted as a full member of FIAPF (Federation of International Film Producers Associations), one of the most influential film organizations in the world. Membership will be officially active from January 1, 2026.
The accession of the Azerbaijan Producers Guild to FIAPF is a strategic step towards the international recognitio...

The closing and award ceremony of the 16th Baku International Film Festival was held at the Nizami Cinema Center on December 9. The festival was organized within the framework of “Baku Cinema Breeze 25” at the initiative of the Center for Young Cinematographers, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Cinema Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Representatives of the Ministry of Culture, members of the international jury, pro...