HILOL
Competition, 31st Busan International Film Festival
Raised as the son her father always wanted, twenty-three-year-old Hilol begins to feel something she has no words for. As a childhood friend returns and a woman enters her father’s life, the line between memory, desire and reality starts to dissolve.
- Written and directed by
- Botir Abdurakhmonov
- Format
- Feature fiction, 2026
- Production
- Cinematography Agency of Uzbekistan
- Country, language
- Uzbekistan, Uzbek
- Executive producer
- Khurshid Alikhodjayev
- Runtime
- 87 min
Trailer
Short films
- 2023TrainShort filmGrand Prix, 60 Second Film Festival, Denmark. Award, DepicT!, UK.
- 2021BallonShort filmGrand Prix, 60 Second Film Festival, Denmark.
- 2019RelativeShort fictionGrand Prix, 4th Screen Film Festival.
- 2017MamaShort fiction, co-directorSelected at Ca’ Foscari, LAMPA, Eurasia and others.
If you grow up seeing yourself through the eyes of someone you love, how do you ever learn to see yourself?
About
Botir Abdurakhmonov is a director and screenwriter from Uzbekistan, born in 1992. He studied film directing at the Institute of Arts and Culture.
Since 2017 he has made short fiction and documentary films, among them Mama, Relative, Ballon and Train. They have been selected at international festivals including Ca’ Foscari, Eurasia, LAMPA, 60 Second and DepicT!.
Hilol, which he wrote and directed, is his first feature film. It has been selected for the Competition of the 31st Busan International Film Festival.
- Collaborations
- Hilol, festivals, co-productions and new projects
abofilms.studio@gmail.com