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Adapted from a short story by his father, independent filmmaker, Arshak Amirbekyan, presents Three Evenings, a film made with an incredibly low budget and a storytelling that will not resort to sex, violence, or suspense. Accompanied by existentialistic music of Eric Sati and Claude Debussy, a simple story will unfold about the complications of loneliness, betrayal, and the compassionate bond between two strangers. Simon, rather an ordinary Soviet scientist, an ornithologist humbly lives his ordinary Soviet life filled with heart exhausting and well organized solitude. But something promises to change when a strange woman with a drama of her own…

A US senator’s son (Jaime Kennedy) is accused of being a Turkish spy when he crash-lands in a small Armenian village in this hilarious comedy. source

A lonely self-absorbed and egocentric theatre actor inhabits a world populated by his past characters. Unexpectedly he finds himself plunged into the realities of people afflicted by social injustice. After experiencing himself as a critically-ill girl, he attempts to find the money for her treatment. But yet this proves not to be enough, and he must take the final, desperate step. source

A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, The Color of Pomegranates revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative. The film’s tapestry of folklore and metaphor departed from the realism that dominated the Soviet cinema of its era, leading authorities to block its distribution, with rare underground screenings presenting it in a restructured form. This edition features the…