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A smile travels through the world of sadness, transformed by emotions and thoughts but a kiss of love brings it back home.
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Based on the Armenian ‘Sharakan’, a nine-part song that brings us gradually closer to meaning, Maria Saakyan’s new film further develops the poetic invention apparent in her first feature, The Lighthouse. Focusing on the world of a 14-year-old girl, Evridika, who is experiencing the first extremes of adolescent emotion, it makes effective and imaginative use of her private world centred on internet chat rooms and mobile phone recordings.
Ashen's Mother - Geghecik
In Soviet Azerbaijan, a divorced Armenian couple fights over the custody of their daughter, Ashen. Stolen from one parent to another, Ashen's guardians are tragically killed in the bloody war surrounding them. Will the arrival of a new savior finally bring Ashen freedom? Official selection of the Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative.
Post war Armenia. Joan starts a journey traveling all over the country. Through the authentic nature, people she meets on her way, the voices and sounds she listens to, Joan finds herself longing to perceive the world anew. While she is looking for the person whose voice had called her to him...
Screenplay
Post war Armenia. Joan starts a journey traveling all over the country. Through the authentic nature, people she meets on her way, the voices and sounds she listens to, Joan finds herself longing to perceive the world anew. While she is looking for the person whose voice had called her to him...
Feature film created by 10 famous Armenian film directors and scriptwriters. The movie consists of 10 short stories lasting about seven minutes each, "10 life stories" beaded like "pearls" on an "endless thread" called Yerevan. Each story is shot in a definite genre and differs from the rest by its concept as well as signature, yet all the stories integrate into a bright mosaic, reflecting nowadays Yerevan life.
