A child chooses the window over the walls closing in. You won't forget this.
The film reveals the contradictions between the "educating" teachers and the "educated" students in the school, which is actually an orphanage and a boarding school, where lawlessness, violence, hypocrisy, and cruelty prevail. Forced to live in such contradictory conditions, but unable to adapt to these conditions, little Ahsan, who misses his native home, finds the only way out - he perishes by throwing himself out of the window. The film was shot on the basis of the motifs of Isi Malikzade's story "Nowruz Holiday of Wanderers".
Acting
Ilham Babayev's silent suffering says everything words cannot
Direction
Abluj brothers build dread through mundane institutional rituals
Cinematography
Windows, doorways, frames within frames—escape always visible, never reachable
Director
Hasan Abluj
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nowruz, the Persian New Year celebrating renewal, becomes a cruel joke in this orphanage where no one returns home.
Based on Isi Malikzade's story, the film emerged during Azerbaijan's post-Soviet cinematic renaissance exploring suppressed historical trauma.
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