7 short films | 107 mins | M | All films have English Subtitles
Seven powerful short films from Armenia and Australia, exploring memory, displacement, identity and resilience. From stories of exile and homecoming to family trauma and personal transformation, this diverse collection offers intimate and thought-provoking perspectives on the human experience.
Films featured:
Expulsion | Documentary | 24 min | 2025 | Armenia | Dir: Yervand Rumyan | Armenian, English
Following the 2020 Artsakh War, residents of Karvachar are forced to leave their homes and homeland behind. Months later, this moving documentary revisits those displaced families as they reflect on the heartbreak of exile, loss and the painful decision to abandon everything they knew.
The Ring | Drama | 15 min | 2025 | Armenia | Dir: Alexander Atanesyan | Armenian, French, English, Turkish
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.
The Circus Lion | Drama | 20 min | 2025 | Australia | Dir: Tigran Tovmasian | Armenian, English
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.
When Dogs Bark | Drama, Thriller | 14 min | 2021 | Australia | Dir: Matthew Keisoglu | English, Greek
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.
Jeanna | Drama | 16 min | 2025 | Armenia | Dir: Karen Avetisyan | Armenian
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.
The Eternal Red | Drama | 11min | 2026 | Armenia, Germany | Dir: Naira Sargsyan | French, English
A disillusioned veteran finds himself at a war photo exhibition, where everybody else sees art, while he relives his past.
Raznik’s Hunger | Psychological Thriller | 7 min | 2017 | Australia | Dir: Shahane Bekarian | English
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.
