Border

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Film Information:
Year:

2009

Border
Países:

  
Director:

Harutyun Khachatryan

Color:

Color
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

82 min

Cast:

  • Liparit Liparitian
  • Manvel Mkhitaryan
  • David Gasparyan,
  • Nakhsho Gasparyan

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Harutyun Khachatryan, Mikayel Stamboltsyan
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Vrezh Petrosyan
  • MONTAJE: Harutyun Khachatryan
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Harutyun Khachatryan, Gevorg Gevorgyan, Denis Vaslin

Contact:

  • Golden Apricot Fund for Cinema Development
  • Tatevik Manoukyan
  • Moskovyan Street 3
  • 0001 Yerevan, Armenia
  • T +374 10 521 042
  • F +374 10 521 047
  • E khachatryan@gaiff.am
  • W www.gaiff.am
  • www.border.am

Synopsis

Original Title: Sahman

Let’s imagine we take an American western (how couldn’t we) from 1948 (just to name a year), and we rip its seams, tear its armature, implode its narrative, deconstruct its drama, and leave nothing but a few edges and tips drenched in naturalism and aggressive daily routine. We then move its frontier issues to a deserted no man’s land lashed by all kinds of hardships, and populate it with an old caste apparently living on a time system that’s disconnected from any kind of clock or calendar. Let’s imagine now that the storytelling is marked by the eye of an injured ox. Well then, something like that –and much more– is what Border has to offer. It’s a documentary film, slightly fictionalized, that depicts the life of men/specters in never ending transition, a nomad people framed in a fixed shot. This turns the film into a late 19th century story filmed with the intelligence and boldness of a 21st century aesthete. Be that as it may, it’s one of those important films that everyone should see, in a fair and organized world. Of course, that’s not exactly the one we live in.

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