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A list of the most recent films produced in Azerbaijan ordered by year of release in the 2010s:
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A list of the most recent films produced in Azerbaijan ordered by year of release in the 2010s:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 2010 | ||||||
| The Precinct | Ilgar Safat | Zaza Bejashvili, Melissa Papel, Vagif Ibrahimoglu | ||||
| 2011 | ||||||
| Buta | Ilgar Najaf | |||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| Steppe Man | Shamil Aliyev | |||||
| Amazing Azerbaijan | Liz Mermin | Documentary | UK, Azerbaijan, German co-production | |||
| 2014 | ||||||
| Down the River | Asif Rustamov | Drama | ||||
| Endless Corridor | Aleksandras Brokas | Documentary | ||||
| Man Eva Qayidiram | Samir Karimoghlu | War | ||||
| Nabat | Elchin Musaoglu | |||||
| Nobody Likes Us But We Don't Care | Jordan Baseman | Documentary | ||||
| Porter & Co. | Collin Kriner | Documentary | ||||
| Retour au Caucase: Gérard Depardieu dans les pas d'Alexandre Dumas | Stéphane Bergouhnioux | Documentary | ||||
| Saving Papua by Not Cycling There | Florian Augustin | Documentary | ||||
| Seçim | Shahin Khalil | Drama | ||||
| T of Generation Baku, Contradictions | Orkhan Ata | Documentary | ||||
| 2017 | ||||||
| Pomegranate Orchard | Ilgar Najaf | |||||
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