Drama

Biopic

Vazgen: The Last Sparapet

A gifted writer turned wartime leader, Vazgen founded the Armenian military, secured victory, and dreamt of economic reform, only to be tragically assassinated in parliament. A tale of courage, sacrifice, and lasting legacy.

Best of AFFA

Aram, Aram

Aram must navigate the clash between old-world values and new-school Armenian identity after suddenly moving to America to live with his Grandfather, in this emotionally powerful coming-of-age drama.

Sports Drama

Ararat 73

Legendary Spartak player Nikita Simonyan becomes the coach of Yerevan’s Ararat and sets himself an impossible task: a “golden double” – victory in both the USSR Cup and the USSR Championship. To do so, he must win the trust of his new team and overcome fierce competition.

Anniversary Screening

Lion

10th Anniversary screening of the award winning film Lion (2016). The remarkable true story of Indian boy Saroo Brierley, who at the age of five is separated from his family and adopted by an Australian couple 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Special Presentation

In the Land of Arto

Céline arrives in Armenia for the first time to legalise the death of Arto, her husband but instead uncovers lies about his war service and desertion. Her journey through a war-scarred past asks the question of how can you bury a ghost?

Best of AFFA

Amerikatsi

It is 1947 and Charlie, a genocide survivor having escaped the genocide and grown up in the USA, repatriates back to Armenia to connect with his homeland, only to be greeted with the harsh reality of Soviet Communism.

Shorts

Jeanna

Living in a provincial orphanage, 16-year-old Jeanna spends her days watching the mother who abandoned her from afar. When she accidentally uncovers the reason behind her rejection, the revelation shatters her world and pushes her towards a life-changing decision.

Shorts

Raznik’s Hunger

A sailor with anterograde amnesia sits trapped in a neurologist’s office, his notebook the only thread tying him to a self he can’t remember – and a warning he wrote himself: don’t trust the doctor. As she presses him to recall the ship where his entire crew died, fractured memories of a dark figure claw their way back, hunger and confusion curdling into something feral. When her touch breaks through the fog, clarity comes too late – he attacks, and in the one lucid instant after, he finally sees what he’s done.

Shorts

The Circus Lion

Desperate to escape his struggling country town, a young wrestler sees a place on the Australian team as his only way forward. When tragedy strikes, his fight for a new future becomes a battle with the trauma he has spent years trying to outrun.

Shorts

The Eternal Red

A disillusioned veteran finds himself at a war photo exhibition, where everybody else sees art, while he relives his past.

Shorts

The Ring

Fifty years after being driven from her childhood home, a woman returns in search of memories from her past. But her quiet act of remembrance is mistaken for something else entirely, setting off an unexpected search for treasure and revealing the distance between memory and myth.

Shorts

When Dogs Bark

After his father’s flock is brutally slaughtered, an intellectual son returns to his widowed father’s isolated home. As old wounds resurface, he is drawn into a world of fear and suspicion where the past seems destined to repeat itself.

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