The director and cameraman of this graduation film from the Moscow film school (VGIK) are of Armenian extraction. The film is a personal, artistic reckoning with a dramatic event in the life of the young filmmaker: the loss of her father, who committed suicide at the age of 21. The film is an attempt to reconstruct his life and being. A man she doesn’t have a single memory of.
Also in this combined programme
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Kinder auf der Landstrasse
Inspired by a short story by Franz Kafka, transformed into a visual and sensual poem with powerful and painterly scenes of nature. -
The Day I Approach Myself
A writer arrives on the south coast of the Crimea to work on a translation of Rilke. In the course of the film, the travel… -
Hare Hunting
A sensitive and cinematographically powerful story about a small boy who is confronted with the death of his grandma.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Armenia, Russia
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 27'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm