Sydney Films
A Winter’s Song
Aspiring singer Liana takes a leap of faith to travel to Armenia for the first time in search of inspiration. A world of music, culture and love awaits, transforming her life forever in this delightful romantic comedy.
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.
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.
Full House: Landing
A group of formerly inseparable friends, who are traveling to Dubai for different reasons unexpectedly find themselves on the same flight. A sudden twist leads them on a hilarious and chaotic adventure in a remote forest.
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.
Poqr Mher (Mher Junior)
A school excursion takes an unexpected turn when two students accidentally open the legendary door of Aghravakar, unleashing Poqr Mher into the modern world. As ancient myth meets contemporary life, a funny and heartfelt adventure unfolds for audiences of all ages.
Precious Boys
Two boys, switched at birth, grow up in opposite worlds – one in extreme wealth, the other in poverty. Seventeen years later, the truth suddenly comes out, plunging both families into chaos in this quirky comedy.
Aurora’s Sunrise
The story of how Aurora Mardiganian, after losing everything during the Armenian Genocide at 14 years old, became a silent movie star after moving to New York. With luck and extraordinary courage, her story becomes a media sensation.
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.
Outliving Shakespeare
In a derelict Soviet-era retirement home, a group of its elderly residents rehearse the original play “Shakespeare’s Sins”. Follow the troupe as they bond and find community in this thought-provoking exploration of the loneliness that comes with aging.
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?
Mumma Bear Cushman
Softly spoken and endlessly underestimated, American nurse Emma Cushman crossed into the collapsing Ottoman Empire to serve – and stayed on as war and genocide tore families apart around her. Negotiating with officials in their own language and risking deportation rather than leave her orphans behind, she was pulled into a role that history has only half-told. A source-backed docutainment that asks: how much can a soul carry, lose, and still remain whole?
Shorts
Discover seven thought-provoking short films exploring resilience, identity and human connection through intimate stories from Armenia and Australia.
Ojakh, on the other side of the silence
Erhan Arik, a Turkish photographer, grew up in a house previously inhabited by Armenians. After he hears a voice in his dreams, he goes on a journey to understand the Armenian history of the land around him.
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.
In Search of Light
Follow the raw and deeply personal journeys of two individuals as they navigate their relationship with faith and find God’s presence on their own paths. A world premiere by Armenian-Australian Hasmig Der Tateossian.
Expulsion
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Eternal Red
A disillusioned veteran finds himself at a war photo exhibition, where everybody else sees art, while he relives his past.
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.
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.