After a break of thirty-five years, musicians set out from the entrance of the Zangezur corridor towards ancient Ordubad. For the first time, Ordubad bayatis sound in quarters that have themselves become heritage, accompanied by original music. Customs found nowhere else in Azerbaijan — from the centre of the town to its most remote villages — come alive on screen, for the musicians' mission is to bring to light rhythms that have come down through millennia and remained hidden until now. The people of Ordubad, their traditions, their artefacts, even the fruit that ripens there, gradually become an inseparable part of those rhythms. The bond between walnut trees and the doors of old Ordubad houses, the reason the town's ancient mosques were built without minarets, the secret of its ice-cold springs and much else are explained in detail for the first time. The questions that have always mattered here — why for centuries this place was called the Abode of Paradise, and why National Leader Heydar Aliyev called Ordubad the pearl of Azerbaijan — no longer go unanswered. Ordubad, added in February to ICESCO's preliminary list, becomes a character in its own right in this forty-five-minute documentary, musical and ethnographic film, the first screen work produced within the Azerbaijani Culture 2040 concept.
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