The Carpet - Written by Shamil Aliyev

The scenario of the full-length feature film ‘Khaly’ (The Carpet), tells about the lack of human interaction in modern society, in which, regrettably, there is the degradation of the simplest human values. As the carpet is being woven, it becomes a metaphoric protagonist of the story. Many centuries ago, in the book of Ecclesiastes it was said: “Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone.”

The protagonist of the film ‘Khaly’ - a deaf and blind Samad who is the clearest proof of afore-named. Figuratively speaking, we can say about him that he fell down. Samad is deaf and blind. He lived just like everyone else, when the time came; he got married and started a family. However, misfortune overtook him, Samad lost the ability to see and hear forever. And it really is a great tragedy for the artist, who knows all the secrets of creating the ancient carpet and is forced to store them in the treasury of his memory.

Shamil Aliyev was born on June 26 1960 in Baku, Azerbaijan. After graduating from Azerbaijan State Institute of Culture in 1989, he had worked as a film director in the “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio named after J. Jabbarli. His first feature film “Confession” was shot independently.

As a director, he further worked on various national TV channels. Mr. Aliyev was an author and director of several projects on TV. Among them, “Film Media’, “Cinematography”, “Classicists and contemporaries” dedicated to such cinematographers as Alfred Hitchcock, K. Zanussi, Andrei Tarkovski and others.

In 1999 he shot his short fiction film “Occasional Meeting”. 2006-2007 He attended in the framework of the FOCAL IFA-SC program, at the screenwriter Claire