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Award-winning Armenian-Canadian experimental filmmaker Gariné Torossian weaves together a poetic collage of memory, loss, and expectation in this essay documentary of a real and imagined Armenia. A young woman's journey to her homeland is interwoven with photographs and the reflections of actress Arsinée Khanjian, who recounts the powerful stories she was told during her visits to Armenia, unpeeling her own expectations of the "imaginary homeland." This diary-like exploration is layered with religious iconography, ritual, contemporary struggle, and the burden of history. The beautifully haunting voices of the Armenian-American à capella folk trio Zulal underscore the emotional connection the women share to a land that is and is not theirs, resulting in an elegiac and sensory investigation into the concepts of home, identity and place. In Armenian and English with English subtitles.

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Bonus Materials

• Short films: Girl from Moush and My Own Obsession

Sales Points

• OFFICIAL SELECTION: Göteborg Film Festival
• OFFICIAL SELECTION: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
• OFFICIAL SELECTION: Golden Apricot International Film Festival
• OFFICIAL SELECTION: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
• OFFICIAL SELECTION: Vienna International Film Festival
• PREMIERE: Berlin International Film Festival, 2007
• WINNER: Best Documentary, Warsaw International Film Festival, 2007

Press Quotes

Richly lensed and layered

     —Variety

[a] Masterpiece

     —Toronto Film Review

…forced me into an uncomfortable place and I learned something from it. Consider it.

     —The Sound View