Le Pays d'Arto
Francia, Armenia, 2025.
Directed by: Tamara Stepanyan.
Tamara Stepanyan (Armenia, 1982) is a director trained at the Lebanese American University and the National Film School of Denmark. Specialized in documentaries, her films have won awards at the Busan and Boston film festivals. She is considered one of the leading new voices in contemporary Armenian cinema.
Cast: Shant Hovhannisyan, Zar Amir, Camille Cottin.
Running time: 104 min.
Synopsis
Tamara Stepanyan constructs a narrative of grief that evolves into an intimate investigation of identity. Camille Cottin plays a woman in Armenia resolving the affairs of her late husband, only to discover a past shrouded in lies and conflict. Stepanyan films this journey with a melancholic sensitivity, treating the Armenian landscape as an echo of a life that remains partially hidden.
Tamara Stepanyan constructs a narrative of grief that evolves into an intimate investigation of identity...