When the Persimmons Grew
6.7
Immobile in a home where the sands of time fall to the rhythm of the rural Azerbaijani sounds, a mother waits for her son. When he arrives, their conversations circle around existential questions and news from afar. Unrest cloaks the world outside. Mother and son grow closer, silence melts into words, and life springs between them. The son leaves, and winter settles in to the forever-outdated house in which temporalities blurs and past and present beat to the rhythm of the same clock.
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Hilal Baydarov Director
First release April 11, 2019 · Produced in Austria, Azerbaijan · Production Subobscura Films
Production
Ucqar Film
Production
Subobscura Films
Production
Austria · Azerbaijan
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Original title
Xurmalar Yetişən Vaxt
Original language
Azerbaijani
Spoken on screen
Azerbaijani
Release dates
Switzerland · April 11, 2019
Premiere · Visions du Réel
No release date listed for United States.
Austria
November 5, 2019 · VIENNALE Film Festival
Belgium
January 26, 2020 · The Centre for Fine Arts/Bozar
Bosnia & Herzegovina
August 21, 2019 · Sarajevo Film Festival
China
December 5, 2019 · Hainan International Film Festival
France
November 20, 2019 · Nantes Three Continents Festival
Georgia
September 20, 2019 · Batumi International Art-House Film Festival
Germany
November 8, 2019 · Cottbus Film Festival
India
December 1, 2019 · International Film Festival of Kerala
Italy
November 25, 2019 · Torino Film Festival
Netherlands
November 22, 2019 · IDFA
New Caledonia
October 21, 2019
Peru
December 1, 2019 · Transcinema Festival Internacional de No-ficción
Portugal
October 22, 2019 · Doclisboa
Russia
December 6, 2019 · Premiere · Art Doc Fest
Taiwan
May 2, 2020 · Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Tunisia
October 27, 2019 · Carthage Film Festival
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