Completed - ARMENIAN, RUSSIAN, TURKISH - Drama - 83 minutes
They lost their paradise and escaped hell, led only by love, virtue and self-sacrifice.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Jivan AVETISYAN Writer(s) : Tsovinar KHACHATRYAN, Masis BAGHDASARYAN Cast : Alexander KHACHATRYAN, Homayoun ERSHADI, Sandra DAUKŠAITĖ-PETRULĖNĖ , Sos JANIBEKYAN Producer(s) : Gevorg GEVORGYAN (NATIONAL CINEMA CENTER OF ARMENIA), Masis BAGHDASARYAN (FISH EYE ART CULTURAL FOUNDATION), Kestutis DRAZDAUSKAS (Artbox Film Company of Lithuania)
1988 – Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.Evicted as a result of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Abgar stays behind alone in a gradually shrinking enemy ring. He is waiting for his daughter, who has become a witness to her husband’s murder by an angry mob and was hospitalized with a trauma disorder. An Azerbaijani named Ibrahim, for finding and bringing Abgar’s daughter, suggests that Abgar works on the construction of a mosque. A few days later, Ibrahim finds the girl, named Yurga, in one of the psychiatric hospitals of Baku and brings her to Abgar.
Country(ies) : ARMENIA, LITHUANIA, SWEDEN, LEBANON, USA Financing plan : FISH EYE ART CULTURAL FOUNDATIONNATIONAL CINEMA CENTER OF ARMENIAARTBOX FILM HOUSE IN LITHUANIASWEDEN APRICOT STONE COMPANYAMERICAN ALPHA DOGS INQ COMPANYLEBANESE STATE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS 2DOMINO PRODUCTION OF ARMENIAMOSAICS ART & CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF AMERICA Start of shooting : August 2015
Scandinavian International Film Festival 2017 (Best Feature)74th Venice International Film Festival 2017 (Screened in “Venice Production Bridge”)20th Shanghai International Film Festival 2017 (Screened in "Panorama" Program)UK, Chichester- Chichester International Film Festival 2019 (Best Independent Film )