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LIGHTHOUSE, THE (MAYAK)
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"Maria Saakyan's elegiac, semi-autobiographical, humanist drama The Lighthouse unfolds against the backdrop of the Caucasus wars that plagued Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan during the early 1990s. Told with a dream-like emphasis on vision and sound this is the story of a young woman, Lena (Anna Kapaleva), who returns to her home in a remote, war-ravaged Armenian village to try and persuade her grandparents to leave with her for safety in Moscow. With a striking emphasis on the cinematic image and set to an hypnotic soundtrack by Finnish composer Kimmo Pohjonen, Lena's return to her homeland combines documentary with the great visual tradition of the cinema of Tarkovsky and Paradjanov to become a poetic journey of discovery. An outstanding directorial debut, and an immensely moving experience" (Second Run). In Russian and Armenian with English subtitles.

Mariya Saakyan---Russia/Armenia---2006---75 mins.
VODKA LEMON
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Kurdish filmmaker Hiner Saleem's breakout comedy is a bleakly funny and          mordantly surreal snapshot of life in the frostbitten badlands of post-Soviet    Armenia. An elderly man (Romen Avinian) is one of the only residents left in a   snowy community that boasts beautiful vistas but no kind of economic           infrastructure. When he runs across a widow (Lala Sarkissian) at the town      cemetery, he wonders if she might help him to alleviate his boredom, but       shyness forestall him from making a move. "Visually ravishing! A tribute to      just how rapturous life can be" (Time Out New York). In Armenian,        Hiner Saleem---France/Armenia/Italy---2003---88 mins.