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The Lighthouse

17 September 2020

Run Time

86 mins

The Lighthouse

Mayak

An impassioned, unsentimental debut feature by Maria Saakyan—whose life was cut tragically short in 2018—Mayak (The Lighthouse) is a war film that breaks out of the genre’s conventions with a uniquely haunting perspective. Embattled Northern Armenia at the end of the 20th century—where Lena, a young woman returns from Moscow to convince her grandparents to join her on a trip back to Russia—presents an apocalyptic vision of freedom and imagination in limbo, made forlornly oneiric through the film’s pallid tones and discreet performances of its cast (including Sofiko Chiaureli, best known as Sergei Parajanov’s muse). —Film at Lincoln Center

Director

Countries

Year

2006

Dialogue Language

Russian

Subtitle Language

Primary Contact

Victoria Lupik

Duration

78 mins

Distributor

Victoria Lupik Second Run

Surviving Memories

A film more about the effect of war on people than about war itself, Mariya Saakyan’s Mayak paints the push and pull between the comfort of memories and the reality of present danger as a never ending, circling voyage.

Directors

Country

Year

2020

Primary Contact

Ça Existe Productions

Duration

8 mins

Producer

Manuela Lazic Alessandro Luchetti

Executive producer

Anna Dziedzic

Coproduction company

The Hamo Bek-Nazarov Project

Production company

Ça Existe Productions