Film Screenings
The following 6 films which have participated in Eurasiadoc program will be screened at AGBU hall.
Address: 2 Melik Adamyan street, second floor. The entrance is free
September 12 at 19:00
TONRATUN
2023, 84min
In a rustic hut, five women are baking bread. In the process, conversations arise about their lives as women in a patriarchal society, about war and genocide, and the different perspectives of the generations.
Director: Inna Mkhitaryan
Director of Photography: Andranik Sahakyan
Producers: Angela Frangyan, Stephane Jourdain, De Gaulle Eid
Production: Dokino, La Huit, Cined / Armenia, France, Corsica
Awards and Festivals
The film won This Human World International film festival's international competition in Vienna 2022
The film was selected at Les Écrans Documentaires in Arcueil (France) 2023 and at Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival 2023
Sweeping Yerevan
2020, 53min.
& BRO
2020, 5min.
Marina sweeps the streets of Yerevan by night and does odd jobs by day to provide for her family and give her children a different future from her own. TRAILER & more
Director: Nairi Hakhverdi
Director of Photography: Vahagn Ter-Hakobyan
Producers: Liana Smbatyan, Edit Farin
Production: Margins Media, Faites au Voeu, Lion Capital, / Armenia, France
Sasun has worked hard over the years in the orphanage working as a horse therapist. All the kids call him Bro.
Director: Helena Melkonyan
Producer: Sona Margaryan
Director of Photography: Hrayr Sargsyan
Director of Editing: Nina Khachatryan
October 10 at 19:00
November 7 at 19:00
Village of Women
2019, 83min
An Armenian village called Lichk where only women, children and the elderly reside. Men leave 9 months of the year to Russia to work. How do these women endure waiting, loneliness, and the absence of their husbands?
Director: Tamara Stepanyan
Producer: Stéphane Jourdain
Director of Photography Tamara Stepanyan, Robin Fresson
Production: La Huit, Hayk State Studio / Armenia, France
Awards and Festivals
The film premiered at International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2019
The film won
Torino Underground Cinefest. Italy 2022 - best documentary
Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston, 2021, USA, Grand jury prize - best picture
Film Festival della Lessinia, Italy 2020, International Competition - Best Film by a Young Director
Sole Luna Doc FF, Italy, 2020 - Best direction
The film was nominated at
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, White Goose Award - Grand Prize - International Competition
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival for Armenian Panorama prize
International Festival of Ethnological Film 2021, Serbia, International Competition
And more...
Nothing to be afraid of
2019, 69min.
January 2018. 5 women are demining meter by meter the "Lachin Corridor", a former combat zone where thousands of mines have been planted. This film deals with the great thoroughness of their labor, the tension and the humanity
Director: Silva Khnkanosya
Producer: Stéphane Jourdain
Director of Photography Vahagn Ter-Hakobyan Production: La Huit, Hayk State Studio / Armenia, France
Awards and Festivals
The film premiered at International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2019 nominated for Next Masters Competition
The film won
Les écrans documentaires, France, 2019 - best documentary
and more...
December 12 at 19:00
January 16 at 19:00
Blocus
2020, 85min
For thirty years inhabitants of bordering village Chinari have been trying to survive the war between Azeris and Armenians and the difficult conditions imposed.
Director: Hakob Melikyan
Producer: Jérôme Amimer, Vilik Gharibyan
Director of Photography: Arsen Khechoyan
Production: Leitmotiv production, Lyon Capitale TV, Hayk State
studio
Awards and Festivals
Trieste FF, Italy 2021 nominated for Documentary Competition
Armenia Golden Apricot Yerevan IFF 2020 nominated for Armenian Panorama prize
Les Rencontres du film documentaire de Mellionnec, 2022, France - Selection
L’ Europe autoris de l’Europe 2021 - international competition
And more...