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Azeri Â«GiantÂ» at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam â€“ PHOTO

Azeri Â«GiantÂ» at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam â€“ <font color=red>PHOTO </font>

31 January 2012 11:01 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ulkar Gasimova â€“ APA. The â€œButaâ€ Art Center proceeds to extend the area of its activities and to strengthen international cultural relations between Azerbaijan and other world countries. This time is has been expressed in support of Swiss film-maker Eileen Hofer. She made a film about Azerbaijan under the name â€œHe Was a Giant with Brown Eyesâ€ by the Center.

â€œHe Was a Giant with Brown Eyesâ€ is the first feature-length documentary film made by Eileen. The film tells the story of two sisters from ordinary Azerbaijan family, and changes taken place in their life in connection with divorce of their parents and emigration of their mother with one of sisters to Switzerland. This simple and in the same time touching story is represented on the background of colorific sights of Baku and mountain villages of Azerbaijan. It is amazing how deeply the Swiss film-maker could understand the mentality of people unknown to her hitherto, and reflect simple and in the same time wise truths of their living foundations. Apparently, the part of Turkish blood running in Eileenâ€™s veins played the role here.

The first performance of the film will take place in January 31, 2012, at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, where it certainly will get across the footlights, like previous films of talented and delicate film-maker Eileen Hofer.

Born in Zurich in 1976, Eileen Hofer currently is press officer of one of large-scale film festivals. Before the beginning of her own career of film-maker Eileen few years worked as journalist and chief editor for one of Swiss magazines. In 2004 Eileen took part in Berlinale Talent Campus, creative academy and public forum for hundreds of perspective film-makers from all over the world. Eileen is the author of several short-length films. All of them participated in a lot of prestige film festivals including those in Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand, Palm-Springs, Rotterdam, Brooklyn, Aspen, Vila-de-Conde, Namour, etc) and won dozens of awards, including the award of the main festival of Swiss cinema â€“ Suissimage/Solothurn Film Festival New Generation Prize.