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The Key

2022

A quiet, sorrowful watch that turns a lost key into a heavy symbol of displacement and fragile hope.

Directed by
Elshad Elsever
Genres
Drama
Starring
Gurban Ismailov, Rasim Jafar, Reyhan Cefer
Overview
Umid, the internally displaced person (IDP) due to War, loses the set of keys belonging to his house which is currently under occupation. The keys represent the last hope to come back to his house, so Umid still hopes he will be back one day but the accident bears a strong symbolic meaning to him. He interprets it as losing the last hope.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Directed by
Elshad Elsever
Genres
Drama
Starring
Gurban Ismailov, Rasim Jafar, Reyhan Cefer
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • isolation
  • war
  • memory
  • survival
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Elshad Elsever
Written by
Elshad Elsever
Starring
Gurban Ismailov, Rasim Jafar, Reyhan Cefer, Hüseyn Isgenderov, Yusif Sheykhov, Zemfira Abdulsamadova, Arif Kerimov, Rovshan Agayev
Cinematography
Javid Delee
Country
Azerbaijan
Languages
Azerbaijani

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