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As of 2020, there were 22 women in the 125-seat parliament, including the Speaker of the National Assembly. The percentage of female members of parliament increased from 11 to 17.6 percent between 2005 and 2020. [7] In 2017, Mehriban Aliyeva (the president's wife) was appointed Vice President of Azerbaijan, the highest position a woman has ...
In 1922 the government of Azerbaijan decided to create the first cinema factory which became the forerunner of today's film studio Azerbaijanfilm. In 1923 the Azerbaijan Photo Film Institution (APFI) was established by a special decree of the Council of People's Commissars. The Institution controlled all the movie houses and distribution bureaus.
Gender equality in Azerbaijan is guaranteed by the country's constitution and legislation, and an initiative is in place to prevent domestic violence. Azerbaijan ratified a United Nations convention in 1995, and a Gender Information Center opened in 2002. A committee on women's issues was established in 1998. The Universal Declaration of Human ...
A. Dilara Aliyeva (1929–1991), philologist, translator, women's rights activist. Sakina Akhundzadeh (1865–1927), Azerbaijan's first woman playwright, novelist. Sara Ashurbeyli (1906–2001), historian, orientalist, non-fiction historical works. Hanimana Alibeyli (1920–2007), Azerbaijani poet-playwright, children's writer.
Azerbaijan; Lists of Azerbaijani films; pre-1920; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; ... Azerbaijani film at the Internet Movie Database; Azerbaycan Kinosu This page ...
Azerbaijan was first invited by AMPAS to submit a film in the Best Foreign Language Film category in the summer of 2006, [15] and they submitted for the first time in fall of 2007. Azerbaijan's first Oscar submission was Caucasia by Farid Gumbatov, the story of an old woman leaving her war-torn Caucasian homeland for Russia, aboard a train.
Motherland is a documentary about the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War that started in September 2020. The movie attempts to document the attacks against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Armenians by Azerbaijan and Turkey during a 44-day war. The documentary consists of interviews conducted by journalist and activist Vic Gerami in an effort to document ...
Women are involved in the film industry in all roles, including as film directors, actresses, cinematographers, film producers, film critics, and other film industry professions, though women have been underrepresented in creative positions. Most English-language academic study and media coverage focus on the issue in the US film industry ...