Filmmaker Statement

Director Statement The short melodrama “Maiden Tower” is my first work as an author and a film director. Maiden Tower is an ancient monument located in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. The origin and history of the tower is still the subject of discussion by many historians of the world. According to the most famous legend about the Maiden Tower, a Shah’s daughter, who once lived there, threw herself from it and fell to her death. Despite the fact that the girl had a loved one, the Shah wanted to marry his daughter off against her will to another man. And this eventually led to her suicide. She had no other choice. Inspired by this story, we asked ourselves: “Would the Shah’s daughter have thrown herself from the Tower had she lived in our time?” The norms established by today’s society require that we strive for someone with more money, more perspective, more socially active — someone full of such “mores”. As a result, in society, on social networks, we often meet the similar pictur