Tuns k’aghts’r a
Sareen Hairabedian
EUA, França, Irlanda, Jordânia · Doc · 2024 · 86′
Com a presença da realizadora
Travessias
‖‖ SAB 1 NOV · 16h30 · Cinema São Jorge, Sala 3
Seguido de Debate TRAVESSIAS na Sala 2, às 18h
Estreia Nacional National Premiere
Filme legendados em português e inglês Subtitled in English and Portuguese
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Vrej, um rapaz de 11 anos que sonha ser dentista, é obrigado a abandonar a sua terra natal, Artsakh, durante a guerra de 2020 com o Azerbaijão. Meses depois, ao regressar à sua aldeia, terá de aprender as artes da guerra para defender o seu lar ameaçado. Conseguirá ele carregar as esperanças de uma nação sobre os seus jovens ombros?
Produção Production Azza Hourani, Sareen Hairabedian
Fotografia Cinematography Sareen Hairabedian
Montagem Editing Raphaëlle Martin-Holger And Sareen Hairabedian
Música Music Tigran Hamasyan
Som Sound Tom Efinger
Com Cast Vrej Khachatryan
Distribuição Distribution Hai Creative
Prémios Awards
Prémio Up & Coming , This Human World – Intl Human Rights FF, Áustria | Melhor Documetário, The Intl Film and Human Rights Festival – Human Fest, Espanha | Nomeado para Melhor Documentário, Melhor Fotografia, Melhor Montagem, Melhor Banda Sonora, IDA Awards 2024, Estados Unidos | Menção Especial, Dublin IFF, Irlanda | Melhor Documentário, Prémio do Público, Prémio FIPRESCI, Amman IFF, Jordânia
Festivais Festivals
DOK.fest München, Alemanha | This Human World FF, Áustria | CPH:DOX, Dinamarca | DOC NYC, Estados Unidos | nDC/DOX, Estados Unidos | Palm Springs IFF, Estados Unidos | FIPADOC IFF, França | Verzió Intl Human Rights FF, Hungria | Dublin IFF, Irlanda | Griffon FF, Itália | Sheffield DocFest, Reino Unido
As a great-grandchild of Armenian genocide survivors, I carry the deeply-rooted traumas of my ancestors who were expelled from their indigenous lands and found refuge in the Middle East. I grew up in a small community of Armenians in Jordan, attended schools where nationalism was praised and recited poems about the lands that “will be freed” one day. Nothing and no one has been freed. In 2018, that trauma brought me to a hidden enclave in the stoic mountains of the South Caucasus, named Artsakh, internationally known as Nagorno-Karabakh. As an Armenian, I wanted to hear the stories of its ethnic Armenian population who, to this day, are engaged in wars to preserve their homeland and cultural identity. The story that started to unveil before my camera was about the generational cycle of trauma that kept the resilience of a people alive while passing down the burdens of war to its children. That’s when I met Vrej. Through the eyes of Vrej, a sweet eleven-year-old boy who is wise beyond his years, the film paints an intimate and raw picture of what it means to grow up in a militarized land. By documenting his journey through war and turmoil, Vrej reveals the truth to us about his traumatized society, his family and his dreams that are in stark contrast to the dark future that awaits him and his land that’s at the verge of disappearing. I made this film because I strongly believe that the story of Vrej and all children, whose basic human rights are ripped away from them the day they are born, should be seen and heard. These children have hopes and dreams and deserve to live in peace—not as prisoners to inherited wars.
