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Gathering

Alik Barsoumian, Noah Garabedian, and Gregory Dolbashian’s “Gathering” film highlights a constructed language, an artistic approach to the language of music and dance. “Gathering” is a beautiful piece in which a musician’s solo evolves into a rhythmic dialogue when his sound summons his muse. The film was produced in 2021 within the framework of AGBU’s “Creative Armenia”. It was directed by Alik Tamar Barsoumian, the bass music composition and sound mixing were authored by Noah Garabedian, choreography and dance were authored by Gregory Dolbashian.

The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner

The story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.

Secret Sunshine

Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

A Moment in the Reeds

Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and embark on a romance set against the idyllic Finnish summer. However, looming over this chance encounter, is the father's imminent return to the lake house, the continuation of Leevi's studies abroad as well as Tareq's complex relationship with his family in Syria.