Patarag. Armenian Lithurgy

A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.

The film is a cinematic love-letter to Reichshoffen, a small, modest town in Alsace, and its residents.

The members of the Ayrudzi troupe travel across various villages of Armenia on horseback and put on folk song and dance concerts and shadow theatre performances for the locals.

Filmed entirely from a single viewpoint during the closing ceremony of the 2023 Apricot Tree IDFF, Debet is an experimental observational documentary that forces the audience to pay attention to the smallest gestures and seemingly insignificant details of human behavior, creating a whole array of fascinating portraits.

This documentary, which features Sergei Parajanov’s heartbreaking letters from prison, explores creativity among inmates and the art born in conditions designed to destroy all traces of selfhood.