Tigran Baghinyan

Inspirado em fatos reais, este é um filme sobre uma amizade de infância, dilacerada pelos horríveis massacres hamidianos infiltrados pelo Império Otomano sob o governo do Sultão Abdul Hamid II (1894-1896).

Based on author's childhood memories of the devastating 1988 Spitak earthquake. The father and his two young kids are left without a home and above all, the disaster had claimed the life of their beloved mother and wife. After painful quest to find her body and give her a proper burial, by the new year's eve the family is settled in a makeshift home near the wreckage of their home. While his daughter and son are still playing and merging the disaster into their games, the father for the sake of his children struggles to find strength and heart to live on.

Vilen Apresyan, the deputy head of the Armenian central bank, will be fired if a representative of an international credit organization, who is about to arrive in two days' time, doesn't sign an agreement to provide a 50 million euro loan. The situation looks hopeless, and Vilen can only be saved by a miracle...

Based on a true story, this is a subtle tale of re-affirmation of the identity of the artist following the Armenian Diaspora. It is an encounter with his alter-ego, a dialogue with his own conscience, a gradual dawning of the truth and an authentic glance at life... themes understandable by all. The film is an episode in the life of the director, a life full of surprises, and all the more so for being a cosmopolitan Armenian-American now standing on his native soil, his ultimate source of creative energy and ideas.

Two totally different people; a Tourist and a mysterious hobo like stranger meet on a train. Tourist starts to imagine who might be this strangely dressed up guy. Eventually it turns out what the Tourist imagines about the hobo guy is not actually a reality. People generally tend to imagine firstly negative and grotesque about the person next to them that usually do not match the reality, but it still might contain some pieces of the truth...