
A new story for a remembered song
NURAN’s cover of Zeynəb Xanlarova’s Məni Unutmağa Tələsmə Hələ began as a personal choice. Working from his initial story, 25BUREAU developed and produced a video that gives the song a new narrative while retaining a visible connection to the original.
The direction
The visit and the memory
The story follows a young man arriving with his family for a traditional pre-wedding visit without seeing the prospective bride. Everyone around him moves towards a new marriage, while his thoughts remain with a previous love. Daylight shows the ritual; darkness isolates his unresolved attachment.
The look
Tradition through a contemporary lens
The visual language combines Soviet-era variety television, Azerbaijani family archives and the material details of a village home. Television scenes retain the original performance within the film, while decorative titles, wide-angle lenses and deliberately tilted frames create a new visual register for NURAN’s version.
Credits
- NURAN
- 25BUREAU
- Elvin Elxan
- ZEYNIlaha Maharram
- Zeynab Khanlarova
- Zeynab Khanlarova
- Elchin Jafarov
- Elchin Jafarov
- DAHİNRasim Asgarov
- DAHİN
- Ismayil Khalilli
- Kanan Jafarov
- Aysel Mehrali
- Samira Arablinskaya
- Kamal JafarovSubhan Alakbarov
- Museyib GasimovZaur Javadov
- Yusif Jafarov
- Farid Jabbarli
- Aysha Mastanova
- Beauty Time
- Zaur Javadov
- Museyib Gasimov
- Ksenia Shirinova
- Asmar RzayevaYegana AliyevaAybaniz CamalovaRagiba ShukurovaIrada AgalarovaAnvar AzimovNuraddin SalayevTarlan ZulalovTelman Azimzade
