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Story and photographs by Rena Effendi. Originally published in National Geographic. My father once told me that the average lifespan of butterflies is seldom more than a few weeks. My father, Rustam Effendi, shown here at Maralgöl Lake in western Azerbaijan, was an esteemed Soviet lepidopterist who hunted butterflies and moths in the borderlands between Armenia and Azerbaijan, an area home to a species that was later named in his honor, Satyrus effendi.

What kind of film could make James Ferman - head of the British Board of Film Classification during the scandals over Natural Born Killers (US, Oliver Stone, 1994), The Last Temptation of Christ (US, Martin Scorsese, 1988) and the ‘video nasties’ - unhesitatingly name it as the biggest challenge he ever faced? The answer is not the visceral gore-fest you may expect. It contains a lot of sex, but the explicit detail of contemporary European films like Idiotern (Denmark, Lars v

written by S. V. It is nigh impossible to comb through the many layers of the Monogatari series to find a singular talking point to base...