Mehriban Efendi

Awards for the German film Absurdistan

Azerbaijanian costume designer Mehriban Efendi and EaselSpace.com member has won 2 awards for the German film of "Absurdistan"


In 2008 Mehriban Efendi as costume designer was nominated for the best costume designer award by Berlin film Academy  Lola

Prize German film director Veit Helmer was informed that Mehriban Efendi has won the costume design for his film of Absurdistan by Festival International "Cinema & Costume Moulins" conducted in France.

This festival brings the fashion world to the cinema. Fashionistas gather at Moulins' Centre National du Costume de Scène for the glamorous International Festival of Cinema, Costumes and Fashion. Celebrating the relationship between fashion and the silver screen, the festival hosts a film competition, talks and exhibitions.
Veit Helmer also informed that the film of Absurdistan won the prize for best costume design in the Macedonia international film festival of Skopje Macedonia. In general the film has won around 15 international and world awards and most of them for the best film and the beauty of the production.

The film has been to 50 international festivals.... The film was shot in Azerbaijan regions of Lahic and Sheki. Many Azerbaijanian actors worked in this film. Only one person who was as a creative crew member besides assistances as the costume designer was Mehriban Efendi who has worked in many Azerbaijanian films as costume designer or art director ,and who the worker of Azerbaijanfilm Studio of "Jafar Jabbarli " .She says that unfortunately many Azerbaijan film professionals could participate in making this fantastic film. But the problem was their pure knowledge of English. It was a big obstacle. Because creative crew should very closely work together and often refer to script and communicate with each other and the film director, most crew members were from Europe and they knew only English. She says: Azerbaijanian cinematographers are very capable and talented and they can get world recognition for their ability.

Also known as a Surrealist artist Mehriban Efendi who has paticipated in Surrealism Now project of selected as one of the best professional surrealist artists of the world participant of the international exhibition in Portugal ,which was made by Bissaya Barreto Foundation, she at the end of 2010 won the international prize of "Radiance" conducted in Bulgary,Europe for the best artist in the international competition amongst contemporary artists in the theme of "the codes of my nation"