He was born on 1 November 1956 in Baku. He studied at the M.A. Aliyev Azerbaijan State Institute of Arts from 1975 to 1980, and at VGIK in Moscow from 1985 to 1990. He is the director of several documentary and feature films at the "Azerbaijanfilm" film studio. In 2015 he was awarded the "Golden Fairy" ("Gizil Pari") prize in the "Best Original Screenplay" category for the film "The Divine Creature."
