Nails in My Brain (2020)
A young man wanders through the ruins of what may or may not be his childhood home, where each crumbling doorway opens up onto the past. Memories accost him-memories of his school days, of loved ones long gone, of wonder, callousness, and defeat. The painful invasion gives rise to a series reflections on the limits of cinema and the poverty, and inescapability, of the life of the mind. No matter how much he has tried to change, the young man-who may or may not be the filmmaker himself-always returns to the same places, same questions, same faces, same recollections-the same nails in his brain.
Director:
Hilal Baydarov
Writer:
Hilal Baydarov
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Hilal Baydarov as |
| Writing | Hilal Baydarov | Screenplay |
| Directing | Hilal Baydarov | Director |
| Production | Hilal Baydarov | Producer |
| Camera | Hilal Baydarov | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Hilal Baydarov | Editor |